Quotes About Theater

For me, the phone remains miraculous in a way that electronic communication just isn't. A phone brings the voice of a friend. It's live. Email is a movie—once you get it, nothing you do will change it. A call is theater—surprising and unpredictable. What's more, your presence is essential.

I am entirely convinced that the drama renounces its chief privilege and glory when it waives its claim to be a popular art, and is content to address itself to coteries, however "high-browed."

The difference between a live play and a dead one is that in the former the characters control the plot, while in the latter the plot controls the characters.

Speaking of provincial playhouses, I said they were usually sandwiched between two public-houses, from which they were distinguishable mainly by their flaunting posters and some hideous flare of gas. As for London theatres, I said they were at best like swagger restaurants.

Who can enjoy acting in an empty theater ?

Heaven blazing into the head:Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,And all the drop-scenes drop at onceUpon a hundred thousand stages,It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

Players and painted stage took all my love,And not those things that they were emblems of.

All perform their tragic play,There struts Hamlet, there is Lear.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion ]

It is a common architectural strategy to build courtrooms without windows, to enhance the effect of a chamber isolated from the everyday world, a theater for the great and timeless work of the law.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theater. It is a theater, after all.

Se alejó, visiblemente en el mismo estado que aquel día de abril de 1992 en que vio una obra de Samuel Beckett en un teatro alternativo

de conclusión: En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma. La

En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.