Quotes About Theater

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts.... As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

In the theater it is better to have long arms, long rather than short: an actor with short arms can never make a fine gesture!

I know very well that the theatre is Sodom and Gomorrah in one.

É recomendável pendurar na sala alguns cartazes com frases como: "NÃO FAÇAM ESSAS CARAS TÃO ROMANTICAS." Indicação de Bertold Brecht para a comédia Tambores na Noite.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Ironically, John Wilkes Booth often rented this very room during the previous summer. In fact, as recently as three weeks ago, Booth lolled on the very bed in which Lincoln is now dying.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.

I think it goes without saying that young would-be playwrights in developmental workshops should be so lucky as to write plays as good as 'Waiting for Godot,' 'Uncle Vanya' or 'King Lear,' none of which would have existed without a decent plot.