Quotes About Theater

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The stage scenery, still in its place, among which I was passing, seen thus at close range and without the advantage of any of those effects of lighting and distance on which the eminent artist whose brush had painted it had calculated, was a depressing sight, and Rachel, when I came near her, was subjected to a no less destructive force.

and yet I had given up hope of encountering in the street what I had come there to seek, the affection promised to me at the theater in a smile, the figure of a woman, and the bright face beneath her fair hair, which were only real when seen from a distance. Now I could not even have said what Mme de Guermantes was like, what I recognized her by, for every day, in the picture she presented as a whole, the face was as different as the dress and the hat.

The need for dreams, the desire to be made happy by the woman one has dreamed of, means that it can take no time at all to settle all one's chances of happiness on someone who a few days earlier was no more than a fortuitous, unknown, commonplace apparition on the boards of a theater.

Tuo metu aš buvau ?simyl?j?s teatr?, žinoma, platoniška meile, nes t?vai dar niekad nebuvo leid? man tenai nueiti, ir tok? menk? tetur?jau supratim?, kas tai per malonumas, kad bemaž tik?jau, jog teatre kiekvienas ži?ri tartum pro stereoskop? ? dekoracijas, rodomas jam vienam, nors ir visai panašias ? t?kstan?ius kit?, kurias mato visi ži?rovai, tiktai kiekvienas atskirai.

while the scene-changing is going on behind it, actors present a divertissement.

You know," I said to her as we got back into the carriage, "the life of a resort and the life of travel make me realize that the theater of the world has fewer sets at its disposal than actors, and fewer actors than 'situations.

Berma in Andromaque, in Les Caprices de Marianne, in Phèdre, was one of

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Design follows drama

The cat is above all things, a dramatist.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.