“I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.” WantedDesireActingSecretGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionTheaterMusicalActressesEnjoyedMusical TheaterSecret Desire Author:Amanda Schull
“drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.” PeopleMadeReasonSecretDramaDevilTheaterDenyDemonTaboo Book:Actress: Postcards from the Road Source: Actress: Postcards from the Road
“Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.” WantHeartRealityHappensSecretTheater Book:Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads Source: Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads
“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingYearsSometimesHardFactsFilmAsksRealizingSecretStageTruth IsTwentiesTheaterAsk Me Author:Lucy Walker
“I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole.” GuySecretWatchesTheaterPrintWeekendBon Jovi Author:Seth Rogen
“What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?” PeopleWorldBelieveWellsLongMomentsRealityLightFormSecretWonderDarknessAudienceDoorsObjectsMastersSummerTheaterMethodWinterDisappearInvisibleUnconsciousAtomsLong AgoTrapsPullingClosetsMagicianRabbitsTransformingDazzlingApprenticeship Author:Jane Roberts
“I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.” ThinkingRealUniverseActorsSecretLike YouDirectorsTheaterCamerasSurfaceReal LifeInvisibleFascinatingExploringLensesMicroscopesCamera Lenses Author:Isabelle Huppert