Theater Quotes - page 52

Rock needs theater, rock is theater. We just go through different eras of guilty admission about this. (Amanda Palmer)
Puppets really are the origin of theater. Even the shadow on the wall of Plato's cave was a puppet. The very first actor was some kind of hand creating some kind of animal. View quote
Julie Taymor
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. View quote
Julie Taymor
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ... A lot of what I do in theater is cinematic, and a lot of what I do in film is theatrical, but there are different rules to it. View quote
Julie Taymor
What I don't have in theater is editing. View quote
Julie Taymor
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. View quote
Julie Taymor
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power ... but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist. View quote
Julie Taymor
In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. View quote
Orson Welles
There were centuries when civilization had no theater. View quote
Orson Welles
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. View quote
Orson Welles
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. (Orson Welles)
I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center. View quote
Kevin Spacey
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence. View quote
Kevin Spacey
There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film. View quote
Kevin Spacey
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate. View quote
Kevin Spacey
I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember. View quote
Kevin Spacey
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. View quote
Camille Paglia
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. View quote
Camille Paglia
Conflict cannot be avoided, but perhaps it can be confined to a mental theater. View quote
Camille Paglia
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house. (Martha Plimpton)
There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater. View quote
Martha Plimpton
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all. View quote
Martha Plimpton
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us. View quote
Shane Claiborne
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic. View quote
Joe Rogan