Theater Quotes - Page 29

• I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

  Doug Davidson

  Pie, Tea, Cups

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• I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!

  Jason Dohring

  Long, People, Four

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• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  School, Years, Junior Year

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• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

  Jenny Downham

  Years, People, Community

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

  Cary Elwes

  Unique, Thinking, Three

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• I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

  Cary Elwes

  Thinking, Long, Lucky

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• I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

  Melissa Rauch

  Teacher, School, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

  Michael J. Fox

  Ensemble, Tables, Dinner

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• The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

  Patti LuPone

  Film And Television, Way, Tough

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• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Two, Relaxation

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• When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.

  Emily Mann

  Dark, Night, Light

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• Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.

  P. M. Forni

  Home, Airplane, Squares

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• I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

  Shane Black

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

  Robert Benchley

  New York, Cities, People

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• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

  David Hume

  Perception, Mind, Philosopher

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.534

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• With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

  Neil LaBute

  Hurt, Men, Feelings

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Pride, Hands, People

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• A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Artist, Feelings, Acting

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.216, A&C Black

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• The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

  Steven Berkoff

  Team, Soldier, Actors

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• Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Waiting Rooms

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

  Leonard Maltin

  Dvds, Games, Alternatives

  "In the Money" with Andy Serwer, Allen Wastler, Carrie Lee, edition.cnn.com. October 29, 2005.

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• When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

  Justin Bartha

  Talking, Wonderful, Form

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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