Quotes About Theater

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten'?" He laughed again. "Racine has his moments, sure, but you can't beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.

It's show business. No show, no business.

If we want to participate in this Advent and Christmas event, we cannot simply sit there like spectators in a theater and enjoy all the friendly pictures. Rather, we must join in the action that is taking place and be drawn into this reversal of all things ourselves. Here we too must act on the stage, for here the spectator is always a person acting in the drama. We cannot remove ourselves from the action.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis

Becketts work is an embarrassment to the Void.

The strongman shoved him, and Uncle Barney fell to the ground. His knight's costume of pots and pans banged loudly.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.