Quotes About Theater

No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

The double bill moved east to Salt Lake City, where an incredible line, probably overestimated at five thousand people, waited to see the vampire and the animated pile of corpses that went by his maker's name. The theater's manager rushed to rent out extra space.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

I lack confidence as an actor.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

To Wally there was nothing worse than being in a play with Caroline Malloy. Never mind that he would be doing something special for the younger students. He did not want to make primary children happy.

I can't believe this is really happening, Caroline said to Wally, both of them wearing their goblin cloaks and hoods. I'm a real actress at last. Do you know where you'll see my name someday? On a tombstone? said Wally. Caroline flashed him a disgusted look. In lights! On Broadway! Someday you and your brothers will go to the movies and see me up there on the screen. If we see you on the screen, we'll ask for our money back, Wally told her.

Surely you don't consider me so inflated with the theater as not even to know that for anyone in his right mind a sensible few are more terrifying than a foolish many.

what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy

Interpretar un alma torturada sobre el escenario era más fácil para Ian sin el ojo vigilante de la mujer que lavaba su ropa interior.

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

I want to be an actress and learn astronomy!

After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.