Quotes About Theater

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

El teatro hoy es más político que nunca solo por el hecho de seguir siendo teatro...

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.

An animal of only instinct, Johnny Ferret, has in his actions drama, but no theater; theater requires that you draw a circle around the action and observe it from outside the circle; in other words, self-consciousness is theater.