Quotes About Theater

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if youre a theater actor its very difficult to make a living. But its also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

The world is a stage. Life is an act. Just a balancing act.

If life is a stage, I'd rather be the director because everyone in this world is already acting. I'd love to shout CUT!! When I see them!

I heard a humming, like before a spell is cast. His gaze was a honed blade. All this had been prologue. As if we were in a play, we stood.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.