Quotes About Theater

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

There's no business like show business.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

the drama upon the stage is sometimes no more than an intensification of the rituals within our own hearts.

Molière'S great comic villains are perfect butts for the humorist's lash.

The challenge is not only what to select for telling and how to present it, but how to evoke, simultaneously, the Theater of the World—how to make the leap from ego-vision to omnivision.

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Trump is the producer, writer, and star of an extravaganza performance of the theater of resentment.

This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2.

We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.

Ex-boyfriend #5 appears onstage. Like many of the boys Tiny's attracted to, he's an actor. (If that last sentence raised a big red flag for you, that means you've tried to date an actor.)

What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!

When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what is going on in this world. If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

When you leave the theater wanting to discuss the play, that's a good play. When you leave the theater wanting to discuss your life and the world, that's art