Quotes About Theater

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn't. No one ever "fell back" onto theater. You had to really, really want it.

A professor once described the brain to me as a great silent vault. A dark theater with nothing. playing on the screen. Just electrical charges bouncing corner to corner, like lightbulbs flashing off and on.

Everybody took me under their wing and didn't make fun of me for not knowing anything about theater.

That's the wonderful thing about the theater. Unlike in the movies where once a movie is finished and released you can't change it, in the theater a show is a living thing. When you realize something is wrong you can actually fix it and mount a new production.

When Ethel Merman belted out "You're the Top" even though Uncle Joe and I were two miles away in the cheap seats, it was thrilling but maybe a little too loud. What a voice! They said she could hold a note longer than the Chase National Bank.

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

but then we all know that actors shouldn't be allowed out when they're not on stage. The

the closest I can come to describing what the theater is like. A barbaric free-for-all in which should you ever win, you are for sure going to fall flat on your face or your ass.9

The central miscalculation of the Religious Right has been its failure to recognize the real nature of the battle, how long it's been waged, and the high price we've been willing to pay for entry into the political theater. I write as an evangelical Christian who once believed that America is a Christian nation that lost its way. I'm still an evangelical Christian, but I no longer believe that this nation, or any nation in this fallen world, can truly be 'under God.

The guy who scrapes boogers off the bottoms of movie theater seats Which

Here is something for you to write down and remember: facing reality is never pessimistic. Believing the truth, no matter how difficult that may be, is the ultimate act of optimism because it opens up the panorama of options that will free us from further deception. Taking off a blindfold is never an act of pessimism. Getting angry at the truth (or at the messenger who delivers the truth) is a self-deceptive act of narcissistic theater, and it is a colossal waste of time.

The play's plot is highly self-reflective, centering on a conflict between two teenage actors involved in the production of an original play, itself titled Teen Play. Said Diggins, "It's an unusual conceit, one truly meant to challenge its audience. What I intend to deliver," he added in a tone well known to longtime radio listeners, "is an utterly mah-velous evening of theater.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I would define a Coarse Actor as one who can remember the lines but not the order in which they come. it is perhaps not an entirely satisfactory definition, and a close friend whom I regard as easily the most desperately bad actor in West Bromwich suggests that a Coarse Actor is one who can remember the pauses but not the lines.

Ralph Fiennes

Michael Gambon

The acting area is a sacred space... where the actor cannot die.

At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Denis O'B rings to say that the first-week take at the Plaza is £40,000. 'Forty thousand pounds!' Denis incredulates in tones of almost religious fervency. It is impressive and has beaten the previous highest-ever take at the Plaza (which was for Jaws) by £8,000, with seven fewer performances. So all the publicity has had maximum effect.

Theater gives them what a computer takes away, what no classroom teacher can teach. They learn to work with other people. They learn patience and tolerance and how to be deferential to each other. They learn to be good citizens. It's unifying. It has an impact on kids that can't be quantified. Educators don't know how to measure it.

I'm sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You've just got to do it all.