Quotes About Theater

A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the mood of the forest the way an orchestra does a theater when it begins tuning up its instruments.

Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.

And Honey, I just want you to know, even though I didn't see it coming, it makes absolutely no difference to your father or to me that you are a thespian.

Foolish old earth, returning and repeating itself, over and over. Never misses a show. How can you bear it, you ancient tart, giving the identical performance again and again, evenings and matinées, while the theatre crumbles around you, the lines in the script unchanging, to say nothing of the make-up, the costumes, the extravagant gestures … Tomorrow and tomorrow and the day after that …

But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.

and my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said [Sherlock] Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP's, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.

I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

I did two or three plays every summer.

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

You never play age, you play character.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything

Così è il Mondo, così sono gli Uomini, così è l'Amore. Cos'altro siamo se non fantocci in un teatrino da fiera? Oh, Destino onnipotente tira con gentilezza i nostri fili! Abbi pietà di noi, e dalla nostra scena angusta concedici di uscire a passo di danza.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...