Quotes About Theater

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

I feel like my home is stage acting.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. I miss singing a lot. I listen to Broadway show tunes in my car and sing along to them.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.