Answers Quote by Joe Mantello

I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope…

— Spike Lee

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I…

— Sada Thompson

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer…

— Romain Rolland

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

— Agnes de Mille

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your…

— Marianne Elliott

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If we did…

— Keith Johnstone

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

— Hutch Parker

We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies,…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's…

— William Petersen

Most theater tells you what to think.

— Robert Wilson