Quotes About Theater

Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.""Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom.

The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

This is not a date; this is an audition for a play about a terrible date.

Father, you do not have to be a villain to act one in a play . . .

But it is equally clear and certain that the Dionysos of Greek worship and of the drama was not a babe in the cradle.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman ' and it knocked me on my ass.