Quotes About Theater

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

the only wall we could ever build against What's Going On was the glitter and the shine and the synth and the knowing grin that never stops knowing. The show. Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.

Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.

Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.

You're better off—theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.

The theater of the End is triangular, and in the eyes of apocalyptic believers on all three sides, the great drama has begun. The sound system is hope and fear; each time an actor speaks, his words reverberate wildly. Three scripts are being performed.

Death is a monster which drives an attentive spectator from the great theater before the play in which he is infinitely interested is over. This alone is reason enough to hate it.

Death is a monster that chases the rapt spectator from the theater before the play he is watching with infinite interest has ended.

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!

D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a 'dirty little secret', a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

Life was theater, and impressions one made on spectators were what counted. Public leaders had to become actors or characters, masters of masquerade.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

It is reported, but impossible to verify, that no play was censored during Khubilai's reign.

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'