Theater Quotes - page 53

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. (Ryan Phillippe)
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'm not saying that can't be great -- and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
Poetry is the art that is closest to music, standing between music and narrative orality (which can be speechmaking, sermon or theater). Poetry is the voice of what can't be spoken, the mode of truth-telling when meaning needs to rise above or skim below everyday language in shapes not discernible by the ordinary mind. It trumps the rhetoric of politicians. Poetry is prophetic by nature and not bound by time. Because of these qualities poetry carries grief, heartache, ecstasy, celebration, despair, or searing truth more directly than any other literary art form. It is ceremonial in nature. Poetry is a tool for disruption and creation and is necessary for generations of humans to know who they are and who they are becoming in the wave map of history. Without poetry, we lose our way. View quote
Joy Harjo
For me, art is always a kind of theater. View quote
Damien Hirst
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight. View quote
Damien Hirst
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. View quote
Tom Stoppard
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. View quote
Tom Stoppard
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)
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it. View quote
Gabriel Byrne
Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such. View quote
James Spader
I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun. View quote
Rob Zombie
I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club. View quote
Elayne Boosler
The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them. View quote
Denis Leary
In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work. View quote
Denis Leary
I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies. View quote
Denis Leary
When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me. View quote
Diego Luna
In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that. (Diego Luna)
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. View quote
Brendan Behan
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. View quote
Michael Chabon
Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time. View quote
Harry Connick
It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment. View quote
Richard Griffiths