Quotes About Theater

The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.

All drama is about lies. When the lie is exposed, the play is over.

Bill ran the box office for the 1983 Romeo and Juliet, played the piano, endured elocution lessons, fenced and played cards: bridge at Xavier but later five hundred. Shorten's love of cards – of bluff and bidding – is a key to the boy and the man. Only in his final year did he outshine his brother as a debater; he was chosen for the state team in the national championships of 1984.

The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin Tubby Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed silence in an American theater. It's easy to believe that our audiences spend the day saying nothing, actually saving their voices for the moment the picture begins.

The approach of Christmas signifies three things: bad movies, unforgivable television, and even worse theater. I'm talking bone-crushing theater, the type our ancient ancestors used to oppress their enemies before the invention of the stretching rack.

Under certain circumstances parental pride is understandable but it has no place in the theater, where it tends to encourage a child to believe in a talent that, more often than not, simply fails to exist.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

When you're accepted you don't have to fight for parts.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I can't act!

I can always act.

I acted my heart out.

My dad was a theater major, and he's acted, and he's done so much television and radio and film, and seeing how much fun he had doing that totally made me want to try.

I acted all through school and college.

I've always acted, it's my passion and belief system.

I love acting.

There is no right in acting.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.