Quotes About Emotion

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.