Quotes About Theater

When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

A good script is important to the success of a project and how it makes it easier to get into a particular role.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know!....provided I can memorize the lines.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

W historii politycznej Polski nigdy nie gra?em jakiejkolwiek roli, nigdy nie by?em na scenie, ale cz?sto siedzia?em w pierwszym rz?dzie, obserwowa?em spektakl dok?adnie, a czasami udawa?o mi si? na chwil? zabrn?? za kulisy, zerkn?? na to lub owo, dojrze? szminkowanie i kostiumowanie.

In the early 1950s the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tried something old. Like many another venue for productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Shaw, the Brattle had become a film house in the early 1950s. But it was a film house unlike any other. It had a rear-screen projector, rather than the standard setup that beamed movies on a screen above the audience. And it had owners who believed that the past could be more alluring than the present.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again.

There's a difference between an old-fashioned financial panic and what had happened on Wall Street in 2008. In an old-fashioned panic, perception creates its own reality: Someone shouts Fire! in a crowded theater and the audience crushes each other to death in its rush for the exits. On Wall Street in 2008 the reality finally overwhelmed perceptions: A crowded theater burned down with a lot of people still in their seats.

Peter Pan has been one of my dream roles since I was a child.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.