Theater Quotes

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

Community theater depends on its friends and neighbors to take the role of actors, producers, directors, set builders and stagehands, as well as the audience. It is a collaborative effort. All who take part are volunteers with a love of theater. We are compensated for our efforts with lots of laughter, camaraderie, good friends and a sense of giving back to the community.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

We are interested in putting on great theater and building a stronger group. Do not let a lack of experience hold you back. We'll teach you. Whether you want to be on stage or behind the scenes, we'd love to have you!

She had me in stitches most of the time, while commiserating over the 'joys' of operating a theater. When I heard she had written her own show, I knew it had to be as funny as she is, and wanted the opportunity to work with her again.

Theater performances are very inexpensive if you go off-Broadway, and the amateur performers in New York City are highly professional.

The theater will definitely get its use. It's going to be there forever, or at least as long as all of us will remember.

There were a half-dozen Scottish and English theater groups who were not invited but decided to go anyway, and camped around the edges of the festival, ... A reporter saw some of the shows and said in a review that there were interesting things happening on the fringes of the festival; hence the term 'Fringe.' .

[Heather McDonald's thoughtful Broadway drama,] An Almost Holy Picture, ... I was at the theater one night and a woman said to her friend, 'This is a musical, isn't it?'.

Along the way, he enjoyed acting in community theater and performing in radio drama.

Musical theater is a broad, big tent of an art form.

And, of course, smoking is now illegal in a theater. We have the convention of cigarettes. But they don't get lit. Events comes and go so fast the audience probably won't notice.

You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.