Quotes About Theater

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night.

Most contemporary fiction, like most contemporary theater, is designed to corroborate your fantasies and make you walk out whistling. I don't want you to whistle at my stuff, baby. I want you to be sitting on the edge of your chair waiting for nurses to carry you out.

I love to play a character. If I'm playing Cinderella or Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude – which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I have a very simple belief about acting. The job of the actor is to play someone who they are not.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

Theater is like the leopards, Clem told Diggs. It disrupts the status quo, she tried. Until its ideas bring about lasting change by getting incorporated in society. Maybe. Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy. She's good at that. But if we're talking expedience, law has it all over art, bambina.

Marketing, after all, is really theater," Sculley wrote. "It's like staging a performance. The way to motivate people is to get them interested in your product, to entertain them, and to turn your product into an incredibly important event.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

What you are doing on stage is the most important thing in the world at the present moment; and your memory must tell you how it is to be done.

To her dismay, they were the kind of peppermints that are each wrapped in a little bit of cellophane. Placing her hands underneath the table, she unwrapped three peppermints, using the utmost - the word 'utmost.' when it is used here means 'most' - care not to make any of those crinkling noises that come from unwrapping a candy and are so annoying in movie theaters.

As Violet and Klaus Baudelaire stood, still in their nightgown and pajamas, backstage at Count Olaf's theater, they were of two minds, a phrase which here means "they felt two different ways at the same time." On one hand, they were of course filled with dread. … On the other hand, however, they were fascinated, as they had never been backstage at a theatrical production and there was so much to see.

The play The Kibitzer, by Jo Swerling (1929), made both the title and its star, Edward G. Robinson, famous overnight. The sign on the door read: DR. JOSEPH KIPNIS PSYCHIATRIST DR. ELI LOWITZ PROCTOLOGIST Under this, a kibitzer had written: "Specialists in Odds and Ends.

When Vivian began to recover they brought her a fluted glass vase with an arrangement of lilies and yellow roses from the flower shop on Eighteenth Street owned by an elegant man Arthur had once been involved with, Christos, who was friends with both of them. He, too, loved the theater and everything about it. Later he opened a restaurant.

When she said goodbye it was like a play ending. It was like the theater and coming out again to the streets.