Quotes About Theater

You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul. (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater)

And so Ilúvatar, after the pattern of the biblical Jehovah, produces a drama performed in the theater of time.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.

Because we intuitively understand that terrorism is theater, we judge it by its emotional rather than material impact.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Talking to him is rather like talking to a school play.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

The actor cannot act a verb without an object.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.