Quotes About Theater

I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')

I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.

Buenos Aires, sophisticated and fascinating, is the Paris of Latin America; with a vibrant cultural scene, the best theater and live music, it is the birthplace of many world-famous writers.

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.

I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus's head or something.

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

The play's the thing.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.