Theater Quotes

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

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

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.