Quotes About Theater

I want to do rock operas.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?

Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

In fact, he was dressed for the character of 'Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,' one of his most remarkable impersonations

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

I worship her, Bertie! I worship the very ground she treads on! continued the patient, in a loud, penetrating voice. Fred thompson and one or two fellows had come in, and McGarry, the chappie behind the bar, was listening with his ears flapping. But there's no reticence about Bingo. He always reminds me of the hero of a musical comedy who takes the centre of the stage, gathers the boys round him in a circle, and tells them all about his love at the top of his voice.

Gussie opened his vaudeville career