Quotes About Theater

Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?

William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite. Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?

Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.

As WILL embraces her, VIOLA's eyes flicker open (shielded by WILL from the audience) and the lovers look at each other for a moment as WILL and VIOLA rather than as 'ROMEO' and 'JULIET.' Their eyes are wet with tears.

If the theater is the refuge of the conversationalist whose friend is mute and whose mistress is insipid, then conversation, even the most exquisite, is the pleasure of men without imagination.

There is nothing as un-neutral as a home. Even the most ordinary home is an implicit theater to subversive inner happenings. It is the most self-effacing laboratory of consciousness quietly shaping belief, expectation, and life direction.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

Go through the motions, Adam." "What motions?" "Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living

Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.

Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after awhile, a long while, it will be true... You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.