Theater Quotes - Page 30

• They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

  James Randi

  Let Down, Feels, Has Beens

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• Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

  Sidney Lumet

  Surround Sound, Two, Secret

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• And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

  James Broughton

  Vision, Acting, World

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• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

  Wendy Beckett

  Country, Art, Mean

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• Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, People, Essentials

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• The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
  happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
  theater and empty circus and empty universe
  ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Zero, Vectors, Circus

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• I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

  Ruben Studdard

  Growth, Fans, Really Cool

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• No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “A Son of the Gods and Horseman in the Sky”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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• Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

  Martha Graham

  Drama, Verbs, Nouns

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• Everything in life is theater.

  Margo Jones

  Drama, Life Is

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• I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  New York, Airports, Cities

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Priorities, Acting, Way

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• In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

  Estelle

  Character, Fire, Trials

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• I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

  Rick James

  Thinking, Play, Long

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 23, 2013

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• Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

  Jason Earles

  Math, Favorite Subject, My Favorite

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2009.

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

  Martha Plimpton

  Numbers, Way, Infinite

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• It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.

  David Lynch

  Dream, People, Important

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• I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

  Jim Parsons

  Thinking, Acting, Done

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

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• I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

  Estelle

  Time Off

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• Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Misfits, Stage

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• Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

  Chita Rivera

  Memories, Single Mom, Film

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• You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!

  The Miz

  Wwe, Long, Enough

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• I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

  John Malkovich

  Say Anything, Would Be, Use

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• If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot.

  Joan Rivers

  New York, Home, Night

  "Joan Rivers on the Allure and Magic of New York City" by Joan Rivers, www.vulture.com. September 4, 2014.

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