Quotes About Theater

'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

I was a member of Circle Rep; I had done a little bit of directing there. I remember that I had a vacation from 'Angels', in which I remounted a play that I had done out of town called 'Three Hotels.' That's how I spent my week vacation.

I grew up going on vacations with my family to New York every summer, and it's something that I always looked forward to. They'd take me to theater and shows and interesting restaurants, so I was genuinely really excited to move there.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

It's a vain craft, acting.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of my life, so I gave acting a try. I would have been happy doing theater and making nothing.

I went to Fountain Valley High School. I remember watching Grove Shakespeare productions here. It left a big impression on me.

My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.

For me, there's nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it's on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

The Globe is a missing monument. There's no existing example of a theater from Shakespeare's time. You have Roman theaters, Greek theaters, all kinds of theaters, but none in which the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Marlowe were performed. Scholars feel that it would be of immense value to have one.

On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Richard III was one of those plays that could repeal the law of diminishing returns; it could be enjoyed over and over again.

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine?

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.

Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theater, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy

The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.

Le monde est était une comédie sans acteurs.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.