Quotes About Theater

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

My first school play was 'Perkin and the Pastry Cook' that my primary school put on, and I played a boy, and it was so much fun, and I'd love to play a boy again. I think that would be great.

I want to act. That'd be so much fun.

I find theater emotionally expensive and all-involving. You have to pour so much blood and passion and heart into it. And so much time. Why do that for something that's only vaguely interesting and anyone can do it?

I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?'

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts . . .   —William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Booth immortalized himself by staging one of history's greatest dramas. In the process, he accomplished what every actor aspires to do: he made us all wonder where the play ended and reality began.

Sand???m?zdan çok daha az Yunanl?y?z. Ne tiyatro basamaklar?n?n ne de sahnenin üzerindeyiz; bizzat yönlendirdiÄŸimiz -çünkü onun bir çark?y?z- onun iktidar etkileri taraf?ndan kuÅŸat?lm?? olarak, Panopticon makinesinin içindeyiz.

Anything really is possible in musical theater.

Every demon loves Sweeney Todd, you know. It's kind of a given.

Koniec seansu! Maestro! Zasuwaj pan marsza!

Tak – mówiÅ' dalej Korowiow – zdumiewajÄ…cych rzeczy mo?na oczekiwa? z cieplarni tego domu, jednoczÄ…cego pod swoim dachem kilka tysiÄ™cy pracowitych straceÅ"ców, którzy postanowili caÅ'e swoje ?ycie poÅ›wiÄ™ci? sÅ'u?bom Melpomeny, Polihymnii i Talii.

Aren't there enough plays already? There are such lovely plays and so many of them. If you were to start playing them you couldn't get through them all in twenty years. Why do you want to write? It must be so upsetting!

No, you mustn't give way. It's simply that you don't know what the theater's like. There are some complicated mechanisms in this world but the theater is the most complicated of them all...

I might put it another way: Franz felt his book life to be unreal. He yearned for real life, for the touch of people walking side by side with him, for their shouts. It never occurred to him that what he considered unreal (the work he did in the solitude of the office or library) was in fact his real life, whereas the parades he imagined to be reality were nothing but theater, dance, carnival- in other words, a dream.

Hay situaciones en las que las personas están condenadas a hacer teatro.

Estoy pensando en el redactor que organizaba la recogida de firmas para la amnistía de los presos políticos en Praga. Sabía perfectamente que aquello no ayudaría a los presos. El verdadero objetivo no era liberar a los presos, sino demostrar que aún había gente que no tenía miedo. Lo que hacía era teatro. Pero no tenía otra posibilidad. No podía elegir entre actuar o hacer teatro. La disyuntiva era: hacer teatro o no hacer nada.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

Acting is something I love.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.