All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don't turn out the way you wanted them… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance… — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Because I come from a background in theater and doing little fringe plays, and wondering if 20 people would come to see… — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show.… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.… — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV… — Jerry Orbach Copy Share Image
I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic'… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image
The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot… — Stephen Spinella Copy Share Image
I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a… — Jenna Coleman Copy Share Image
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and… — Jesse Williams Copy Share Image
You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you… — Adolph Green Copy Share Image
I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that… — Anya Taylor-Joy Copy Share Image
If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere,… — David Tennant Copy Share Image