Character Quote by Ian McShane

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean…

— Paulo Coelho

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly.…

— Clive Owen

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that…

— Eleanor Catton

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know.…

— Pearl Cleage

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you…

— Cate Blanchett

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't…

— Estelle Parsons

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

— Martha Graham

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

All theater is dance.

— Robert Wilson

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell