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Quotes About Theater

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress
~ Lillie Langtry
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
~ Elia Kazan
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.
~ Edward Teller
I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
~ John Wilmot
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
~ Kirsten Dunst
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
~ Tom Stoppard
I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.
~ Wayne White
I wish we could see Hamilton.
~ Jenny Han
After the movie we have an unspoken understanding to hustle out so we don't run into Genevieve again. The two of us bolt out of the theater like the devil is on our heels--which, I suppose, she sort of is.
~ Jenny Han
Both have trouble working up the nerve to go into the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings.
~ Jenny Offill
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~ Jerry Hall
For a time Jerry toyed with appearing in another improvisational play called Story Theater, in which he and Carbone considered and rehearsed singing Frankie Avalon's hit Venus, but changing the key lyric to "penis.
~ Jerry Oppenheimer
Die Leute vom Theater reden immer vom Theater.
~ Erich Kastner
Po danu Lisabon ima ne?eg naivno teatralnog što privla?i i o?arava — ali je no?u grad iz bajke koji se sa blistavo osvijetljenim terasama spušta ka moru, kao neka nagizdana žena što se naginje ka svom tamnoplavom ljubavniku.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Kokia ?ia dr?sa? Aš ne iš dr?si?j?. Kartais man b?davo gana baisu. Kaip žmogui, kuris, at?j?s ? teatr?, s?di ne savo vietoje ir vis d?lto neina iš jos.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Omul este un actor des?vârÈ™it È™i are o pasiune pentru rolurile lacrimogene.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Music is constructed in notes. Language in words. Both are communicating. Music is a language of feeling, the heart. Words are the music of the mind. Theater is their marriage.
~ Ethan Hawke
the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality.
~ Ethan Hawke
the theater is the living consciousness of the world.
~ Ethan Hawke
There are only two kinds of Shakespeare productions; ones that change your life, and ones that suck shit. That's it. Because if it doesn't change the audience's life... the production has failed.
~ Ethan Hawke
Layton combined dialogue, song, and dance in a fluidly shifting action
~ Ethan Mordden
And no one knows a show like its stage manager.
~ Ethan Mordden