Quotes About Theater

What is a holy mass, Tom, if not a play? A wedding? A coronation? do you wish to know why I am a playmaker? Because I know that, at every moment, we are in the midst of some play. Only in an arena that calls itself theater may we stand outside the real theater - our lives - and we see them in all their truth, Tom. By which, if course, I mean their tragedy.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Miksi muka on hienostunutta olla ikävystynyt? Tyylikkäillä matkailijoilla ja teatterissa kävijöillä on usein sama tuskastunut, ikävystymisestä kielivä ilme. Miksei voisi sanoa: "Ai matka? Miten jännittävää! Suurenmoinen näytelmä!

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick- these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business.

Adam senses a large weariness in him, the weariness of an old actor in the middle of a long run in an old part.

I should be an actor because I'm pretty dang good at hiding the pain.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

If a hit song comes on in a theater, the mass audience get so excited they throw money, just out of excitement.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

I am available as an actor across languages.

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.