Theater Quotes - Page 3

• The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  School, Done, Study

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• The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

  Robert Holman

  Theatre, Shouting, Stage

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• Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

  Paul Rudd

  Actors, Things To Do, Enriching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.

  Debra Winger

  Character, Sadness, Night

  "Why are Debra Winger and Sam Elliott doing a multi-cam sitcom for Netflix?". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 30, 2016.

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• In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

  Tristan Bernard

  Live Theatre, Want, Audience

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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• Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets.

  Barack Obama

  War, Soldier, Weapons

  "Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• Everything is theater.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.263, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Fun, Space, Play

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• In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

  Adolf Hitler

  Educational, Mean, Government

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• That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

  Jane Krakowski

  Reactions, Live Theater

  "Jane Krakowski Takes Manhattan". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. June 24, 2003.

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• I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

  Kristen Johnston

  Roles, Gone, Television

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• I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

  Renee O'Connor

  Heart, Thinking, Gypsy

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• I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Smile, Hurt, Faces

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• We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Way, Faces

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• Good drama must be drastic.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Drama, Theatre, Drastic

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• I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

  Cillian Murphy

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Saying Please

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Focus, Community

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• I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

  Italia Ricci

  Grew Up, Young, Enjoyed

  "Chasing Life Actress Italia Ricci: Uncertainty and Sticking It Out". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.

  Kristen Hager

  Film And Television, Actors, Done

  "LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL Interview Pt. 1". Interview with Monika Bartyzel, collider.com. September 25, 2009.

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• In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.

  Michelle Stuart

  Shadow, Example, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

  William Monahan

  Gears, Film, Playing Around

  Source: collider.com

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• What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do everything. I do theater, film, and television, and the theater is mostly financed by the government.

  Meital Dohan

  Government, Israel, Film And Television

  "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘on Ya,’ Meital Feat. Sean Kingston". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

  Meital Dohan

  Israel, Dangerous, Streets

  "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘on Ya,’ Meital Feat. Sean Kingston". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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