Quotes About Theater

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

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 wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.