Quotes About Theater

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

Humanity is a comic role.

Art?k hayatta yeteri kadar ac? var, insanlar bunu görmek için tiyatroya gitmezler art?k.

Vazgeçiyorum, bütün insanl???n önünde e?ilerek özür diliyorum; beni yanl??l?kla ç?kard?lar sahneye.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Roosevelt used to say, "You and I are the two best actors in America.

To crudely paraphrase a far more elegant apology than ours: Piece out our imperfections with your mind; think - when we speak of whale-boats, whales and oceans, that you see them - for 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our stage; jumping o'er time; turning the accomplishments of many years into an hour-glass...

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

because the rest of the relics in the place lurched toward me then, like some nursing-home theater guild performing Night of the Living Dead.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...

Soy Ruh hasta la médula, y cuando ha terminado la escena, sé salir del escenario.

But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is watching. This is a truth all troupers know.

I was onstage. And there is nowhere in the world I am more comfortable than on a stage.

at the end of the day, I am a trouper first and all else second. As such, I couldn't ignore the chance for a little showmanship.

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

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

No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams