Quotes About Theater

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

General admission for groundlings—those who stood in the open around the stage—was a penny. Those who wished to sit paid a penny more, and those who desired a cushion paid another penny on top of that—all this at a time when a day's wage was 1 shilling (12 pence) or less a day. The money was dropped into a box, which was taken to a special room for safekeeping—the box office.

Shakespeare] è una sorta di equivalente letterario dell'elettrone: è lì ma non è lì.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

I knew the moment I held you in the theater, that you were the reason for everything. Every single turn my life has made led me to you. Were I not the man I am, the agency would never have approached me and I would not have found you, my soul mate. In fact, you are so like me, it is nearly frightening, yet you continue to surprise and astound me.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

The young man in blue who had become his showpiece, a theater for Leopardo's passions, an irresistible echoing move also set hand to hilt.

The young man in blue who had become his showpiece, a theater for Leopardo's passions, in an irresistible echoing move also set hand to hilt.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don't want to write anything but takes.

En realidad nosotros somos como las comedias cuando uno llega al teatro en el segundo acto. Todo es muy bonito pero no se entiende nada. Los actores hablan y actúan no se sabe por qué, a causa de qué. Proyectamos en ellos nuestra propia ignorancia, y nos parecen unos locos que entran y salen muy decididos.

No soy ya el que conocisteis, oh mujeres. Histrio. Mimo. Noche de empusas, lamias, mala sombra, final del gran juego. Cómo cansa ser todo el tiempo uno mismo. Irremisiblemente. No las veré nunca más, está escrito.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.