“An empty theater is a promise unfulfilled.In a few hours, everything around him would be light and noise. Laughter and applause. Colorful… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though.… — Dan Futterman Copy Share Image
In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven.… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule… — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
Having been a theater person first, you have the whole character, and you see the arc of the character in a play.… — Brad Leland Copy Share Image
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
At eight o'clock the curtain goes up and that's it, you're out there with yourself, the audience, the other players. There's no… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is… — Tammy Blanchard Copy Share Image
When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been… — Herman Edwards Copy Share Image
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
“I fought back the tears that came with experiencing something as perfect and powerful as the performance I'd just had. That was… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is… — David Copy Share Image
I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer,… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
I am really blessed and fortunate to be on 'NCIS.' I really enjoy it, and I really enjoy the cast and all… — Brian Dietzen Copy Share Image
![“The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit… [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move…” quote by Sarah Bernhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/495/sarah-bernhardt-15072_acting_the-artist-s-personality-must-be-left-in_2414644.jpg)
