Quotes About Theater

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

They picked up a beard at a theater costume shop and applied it with rubber glue that was making Sloane's skin itch. Jenkins had

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

There's nothing more vivid than the theater of the mind

Stanislavski called this the "Magic if …," the daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything seems possible.

You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever.

39. There are four classes of idols that beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names, calling the first class idols of the tribe; the second, idols of the cave; the third, idols of the market place; the fourth, idols of the theater.

I take a role: *I am the one who is going to cry; and I play this role for myself *and it makes me cry* I am my own theater.

Every passion, ultimately, has its spectator...no oblation without a final theater: the sign is always victorious.

He dabbled in watercolors, attended the theater, and quoted liberally from Shakespeare and Dickens.

I want to see Hamilton.

which gave Cleveland the second-largest theater complex in the country, right behind Lincoln Center in New York.

On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.

Besides, I'm in the theater, darlin'. I meet an awful lot of strange people. It's an occupational hazard.

Sometimes a catalyst is situational, made up of a series of incidents that add up over a period of time. This sort of catalyst is rare, because hinting at action is usually not a strong way to start a story. Three films that have situational catalysts are Tootsie, Back to the Future, and Some Like It Hot. Tootsie, for instance, introduces the New York theater world, showing how difficult it is to get a job.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

I´ve read the first pages of the script, it´s all about Jesus, He is the principal performer.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life

But the people we don't know are only characters in the human comedy. We are the tragedians.

Alessandro Baricco