The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
I always loved theater, growing up, and I was always like, 'Wow, it would be so fun to be an actor.' But… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
I feel like theater in high school seems to be sort of like the safe haven for the outsiders and people who… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I don't do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal - readings before the actual shooting - but I don't like this… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Theatre is more metaphorical where you have to be louder and larger than life, whereas film is more subtle and more real. — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd'… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces.… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. I particularly love… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably. — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as… — Hildegard Knef Copy Share Image
In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
What I love about IMAX is that, when you're in an IMAX theater, in a museum, science center or aquarium, it's eight… — Greg MacGillivray Copy Share Image
My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll… — Ken Ludwig Copy Share Image
I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater.… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical… — Christine Woods Copy Share Image
Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to… — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I love doing both theater and television. I definitely foresee more Broadway, but I think I would like to keep the singing… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around… — Austin Peck Copy Share Image
