Theater Quotes - Page 33

• A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, People, Gazing

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

  Thornton Wilder

  Character, Past, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Kids, Novelists

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• A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Play, Cities

  1957 In the New York Herald Tribune.

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• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Acting, Actors, Stage

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• The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

  Susan Sontag

  Voice, Today, Weak

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• A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

  Robert Ludlum

  Doe, Should, Audience

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• If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

  Scott Caan

  Acting, Impossible, De Niro

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

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• All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

  Edna Ferber

  Baby, Real, Play

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• I have done a lot of theater.

  Jerry Hall

  Done

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• Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

  Jerry Hall

  Art, Fans, Bigs

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• I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Hurt, Drama, Here And There

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• And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, New York, Mean

  "Pulitzer-winning playwright talks gay marriage, Obama, new play". Interview with Chris Welch, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

  Jonathan Raban

  Discipline, People, Society

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  James Earl Jones

  Views, Land, Knowing

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

  James Earl Jones

  Jobs, Littles, Should

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Actors, Supposed To Be

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• Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

  John Malkovich

  Movie, Pitfalls, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

  David Geffen

  Jobs, Shows, Needed

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• The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Play, Paper, Rooms

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• I long to get back into theater.

  Antonio Banderas

  Long, Get Back

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• When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

  Antonio Banderas

  Beautiful, Character, Kids

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• My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

  Les Claypool

  Play, Cities, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

  Stanley Elkin

  Art, Fire, Order

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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