Quotes About Theater

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

There is, first of all, the way prisons transform the human experience of time. The prison should be seen as a kind of theater in which time is forged into an instrument of torture, producing sustained bouts of fear and panic that make prisons also a weapon of terror. The

women chained in place with bike locks, leading their arresting officers in a round of "Amazing Grace." "This is the manufactured division that keeps us separated," Ethan told me. "And separation is the source of how we're in this position." What if he could re-create the joy and song and theater of the protesters but without a demonstration?

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.