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Theater Quotes

Once you’ve been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you’ve noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you’ve seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won’t go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose Picture Quote #1

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don’t get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears Picture Quote #1

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause Picture Quote #1

I’ve always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to invent a machine that could record my dreams, so I could watch them in the morning; or hire someone to draw the things I had in my head, because I knew I didn’t have the skill to do it myself. Theater is that machine. I can make these images come to life and actually walk around inside them for a while Picture Quote #1

I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It’s a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment? Picture Quote #1

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are Picture Quote #1

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To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment Picture Quote #1

Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain Picture Quote #1

Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text, then the light should be as strongly part of that text as, for example, the sound it should be or whatever it is that you see Picture Quote #1

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real Picture Quote #1

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine Picture Quote #1

I’ve taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft Picture Quote #1

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... there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances Picture Quote #1

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves Picture Quote #1

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn’t take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well Picture Quote #1

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression Picture Quote #1

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track Picture Quote #1

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The reason why I like theater is because it’s a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together Picture Quote #1

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I’m not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it’s a little bit more disjointed Picture Quote #1

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man Picture Quote #1

When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted Picture Quote #1

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it’s kind of hard to deny that they had a good time Picture Quote #1

I think in any form of acting, you’re always well served if you’ve done theater Picture Quote #1

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Many of the shows I danced in don’t exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that Picture Quote #1

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week Picture Quote #1

In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry Picture Quote #1

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots Picture Quote #1

At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater Picture Quote #1

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents Picture Quote #1

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Once you’ve been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you’ve noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you’ve seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won’t go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose (Theater Quotes) L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don’t get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears (Theater Quotes) Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause (Theater Quotes) I’ve always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to invent a machine that could record my dreams, so I could watch them in the morning; or hire someone to draw the things I had in my head, because I knew I didn’t have the skill to do it myself. Theater is that machine. I can make these images come to life and actually walk around inside them for a while (Theater Quotes) I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It’s a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment? (Theater Quotes) One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are (Theater Quotes) To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment (Theater Quotes) Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain (Theater Quotes) Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text, then the light should be as strongly part of that text as, for example, the sound it should be or whatever it is that you see (Theater Quotes) The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real (Theater Quotes) Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine (Theater Quotes) I’ve taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft (Theater Quotes) ... there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances (Theater Quotes) These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves (Theater Quotes) I tried softball and soccer. I just didn’t take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well (Theater Quotes) The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression (Theater Quotes) The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way (Theater Quotes) I wasn’t even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track (Theater Quotes) The reason why I like theater is because it’s a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together (Theater Quotes) I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I’m not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it’s a little bit more disjointed (Theater Quotes) All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man (Theater Quotes) When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted (Theater Quotes) Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it’s kind of hard to deny that they had a good time (Theater Quotes) I think in any form of acting, you’re always well served if you’ve done theater (Theater Quotes) Many of the shows I danced in don’t exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that (Theater Quotes) I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week (Theater Quotes) In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry (Theater Quotes) Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots (Theater Quotes) At the core of what I’m doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn’t mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater (Theater Quotes) Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents (Theater Quotes)

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