Quotes About Theater

Number 7 opened last night. It was misnamed by five.

Less is more" was one of Meisner's mantras. "Silence has myriad meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning." Most of all, Meisner urged his students to think of acting a role as "living truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

If I seem superhuman I have been misunderstood

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

England produces the best fat actors.

which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Oh, quantos espetáculos perdi, quantas vezes o pano ergueu-se e caiu sem mim. Quantos de meus amigos nunca encontrei uma só vez em toda a minha vida, (...)

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.