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Quotes About Theater

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~ Gail Godwin
Fue una obra extraña en la que algunos actores personificaban diversos símbolos, una de esas representaciones sesudas en las que te aburres como una ostra pero no te atreves a decirlo porque no quieres que un grupo de seudointelectuales te trate como una estúpida. Solo te diré que había muchas frases del estilo 'La Madre Tierra está sobre nosotros'.
~ Gail Parent
She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
~ Gaston Leroux
So I nodded, which Fred took as an indication to continue. "Everything in the theater and the army was in chaos. Iraq exploded in violence. I was the deputy commandant at the Castle, and got overnight orders to proceed to Iraq on the next flight.
~ Brian Haig
Hitler] Mesélt linzi ifjúságáról és arról, hogy gyermekként milyen nagy hatással volt rá a linzi Landestheaterben látott LOHENGRIN-el?adás. Akkoriban megfordult a fejében, hogy operaénekes lesz.
~ Brigitte Hamann
A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.
~ Bruce Lee
resumiremos a nossa ambição nesta orgulhosa divisa: um ator para cada gesto
~ Bruno Schulz
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
~ Bryan Cranston
religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
~ Herman Wouk
In the year 1959 that was a bold theatrical event.
~ Howard Zinn
Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?' 'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth.
~ Ian Mcewan
I'll have you know that as a young man, I spent an entire year as a woman in a world tour of 'As You Like It.' I played Celia.
~ Tom Hollander
'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.
~ Rachel Tucker
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
~ Andrea Bocelli
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
~ Linda Lavin
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
~ Kevin Spacey
You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
~ Bernadette Peters
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
~ James Payn
I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
~ Idina Menzel
I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.
~ Jennifer Damiano
When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.
~ Max von Sydow
Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.
~ Estelle Parsons