The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
I remember being interested in theater when I was in school, but I wasn't always engaged in making it a career. I… — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded… — Sam Underwood Copy Share Image
I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because… — James Roday Copy Share Image
There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program,… — Caroline Blakiston Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such… — DJ Qualls Copy Share Image
I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school,… — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous,… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I… — Bridget Regan Copy Share Image
I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent,… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother… — Joie Lee Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Theater gave me the confidence to believe I could play something else, 'cause it was so difficult. It was me out of… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
![“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these…” quote by Edward Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/528/edward-bond-13025_activism_the-ruling-class-sees-people-in-the-work_1572145.jpg)
![“We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.” quote by Norman Lear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/550/norman-lear-7597_ads_we-mocked-that-concept-movies-are-better_1546756.jpg)
![“If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.” quote by Don Alias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59d/don-alias-49528_apollo_if-they-the-crowd-at-the-apollo-theater_2862174.jpg)
![“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are…” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/308/hunter-s-thompson-278_anguish_polo-is-my-life-is-what-s-called-a-sex-b_2158882.jpg)
![“I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their…” quote by Simon Helberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8e3/simon-helberg-6849_becoming_i-met-a-bunch-of-people-and-they-said-we_2550567.jpg)
