Quotes About Theater

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work.

By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers at the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the beginning from the shape of later events.

mask of white makeup and the exotic draperies.

It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

I've always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.

I propose that complex systems cannot be controlled or even predicted; first world nations' leaders only perform in a political theater of public deception; someone is at the helm and everything will be fine, just be a good citizen or subject and go back to your favorite sitcom, football team, or reality TV program.

The question: "Do I have to have the conflict outside the character? Can't I have the character at war with himself inside his head?" Answer: The conflict has to be on the outside. If you remember the example of writing something which could be put on the theater stage, you will not forget this principle.

What is a scene? It's a segment of story action, written moment-by-moment, without summary, presented onstage in the story "now." It is not something that goes on inside a character's head; it is physical. It could be put on the theater stage and acted out. What is the pattern of a scene? Fundamentally, it is: Statement of goal. Introduction and development of conflict. Failure of the character to reach his goal, a tactical disaster.

Audiences can get their politics elsewhere. They go to the theater to forget.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...

Zhukov was stunned. Unlikely as it might seem, most of the Leningrad tank force was made up of motionless decoys, nailed together by Shostakovich's colleagues in the set-design team at the Mariinsky Theater.

Halfway through the performance, she saw that one of the Musketeers had died of hunger. He lay on the floor with a shattered cup in his hand. The show, quite incredibly, went on.

Mussolini was not an original thinker, but he was a gifted actor who could play a role.

Thus, in a Pageant Show, a Plot is made; And Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

For several minutes Mary stood stock still on the stage, clad in the color of dried blood:

There followed fifty or so actors of both sexes made up as Brazilian natives, who paraded naked through the streets

It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

To watch my mother onstage, and to watch Dan being awful to her, was such a riveting lie. It was not the play that interested us—it was what a lie it was: that Dan was awful to my mother, that he meant her harm. That was fascinating.

Robertson Davies

I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances – the curtains were up. GROUCHO MARX