Theater Quotes - Page 32

• We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

  Estelle

  Believe, Needs, I Believe

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• Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

  Estelle

  Two, Goes On, Tickets

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

  Estelle

  Time Off

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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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• Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, Want Something, House

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• It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

  Richard Griffiths

  Tired, Commitment, Sick

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• I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

  Richard Griffiths

  Teacher, Teaching, Elements

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• I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

  Francois Truffaut

  Morning, School, Skip

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• I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

  Joe Elliott

  Years, Mind Blowing, Three

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• The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Men, People

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• And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Sitting, Adrenaline

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Play, Fit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  First Love, Love Is, Roots

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• I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Challenges, Modern Family

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Creativity, Novices, Want

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Musical, Lucky

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Theatre, Remember

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.

  Malcolm X

  Butterfly, Wind, Gone

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

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• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  Fergie

  Cousin, Character, Class

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• We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

  Steve Kazee

  Art, Art Is, Feels

  "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Drama, Believe, Doe

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• The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Saint, May, Sin

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Children, Pain, Play

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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