Quotes About Theater

Good Gad! It looks like the last act of Hamlet in here. Turnip banged his head against his clenched fists, making inarticulate moaning noises. Pinchingdale gave him an odd look. 'I had no idea you felt so strongly about the play, Fitzhugh.

Aliens (intermediate programmers) are not creating computer games in the ordinary sense of the term. These games are more like works of art, improvisational theater, performance art, scientific and philosophic investigation and historical novels.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater

Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face.

The infant phenomenon.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

The contemporary listener new to old time radio is in for a real treat... when played back it begins its magic and the listener becomes absorbed by the program and spellbound by the power of the imagination. For those listeners who have experienced this often enough, it is almost second nature to describe radio as the "theater of the mind."

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Every physical movement is mannered, thought-out, plotted for maximum screen effect. She takes deep breaths. She seems to sigh a lot. She's the first-class passenger on a ride of her own invention and she loves the fact that she can share it.

Shakespeare said all the world is a stage... I think its a gym.

gaze down at the dusty top surface of the bank of lights suspended from the ceiling of the operating theater. There's a neatly hand-lettered sticker on the gray-painted metal – slightly yellowing, the writing a little faded, peeling at one corner. It reads:   IN CASE OF OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE PHONE 137 4597

Manaus is famous for its hulking Amazonas Theater, an opera house built of Italian marble and surrounded by roads made of rubber so the carriage clatter of late arrivals wouldn't interrupt the voices of Europe's best tenors and sopranos.

We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.

both spiritual teachers and preachers fall into the trap of using imprecise, emotional mumbo jumbo—if you can't define it or explain it, then it's mumbo jumbo—to connect with an audience. The audience reads into it what they want, and it makes for good theater.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.

I guess when you're a drama teacher, you're used to memorizing long speeches.

He's playing Linus. Lucy's supposed to be his sister. How's that going to look? I mean, in the comic strip, Lucy only has black hair." Her whole table titter-giggles. "I guess this is why the show is called You're a Good Man, Charlie… Brown!" Meredith

what you would get if you ran a mime over with a steamroller? A silent film.

Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.