Theater Quote by Martha Graham Download Open image “Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.” — Martha Graham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Theater
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 Copy Share Image
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways… — Pauline Collins 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 of you… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
