Quotes About Theater

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

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

Eso de amor -decíase Ramiro ahora- sabe a libro; sólo en el teatro y en las novelas se oye el yo te amo; en la vida de la carne y sangre y hueso el entrañable ¡te quiero! y el más entrañable aún callárselo.

someone turned our episode into an off-Broadway musical, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a story of some postapocalyptic survivors who share only one cultural link: the "Cape Feare" episode of The Simpsons. They recreate the script and perform it as a traveling theater troupe. In act 2 we see their play seventy-five years later: it's become as ritualized and bizarre as a Greek Orthodox Mass. I'm

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

We did not stage kiss because we didn't know any better. It was just lights, camera, tongue-dance.

fault. Everyone knows it's bad luck to say the name of Shakespeare's Scottish Play. At least for

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche." "La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir.

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Theater and cinema are worn-out moles of acting talent that goes under the skin of time.

All actors are born comedians at heart.

Law is not theater. Before we write laws reflecting gaudy and dramatic feelings, we must be very sure we understand the difference.

By then Mercy, too, had evolved from the decorous wife of an affluent patriot into a reporter for those removed from the theater of war.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stagehands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed.

I am also aware of television's potential for creating a theater for the masses (a subject which in my opinion has not been taken seriously enough).

As a lover of the theater, Anna had been fascinated by what drove the human heart to self-destruct. That was over. Now all she cared about was that they be stopped.

Part of her soul ... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.

the "Sonia Gluck as I knew her" gag?

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?