“I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.” ThinkingDifferentNightActorsEnergyTheaterAgreeCrowds Author:Austin Peck
“There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy.” PeopleIfsShouldWellsCharacterFeelingsPastGirlDoubtComedyFocusTerribleTheaterCrowdsChiefsNo DoubtFairyMidstConsolationWrinklesDoorwaysMustachePathosSergeantsNewlywedsEnlargement Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. The early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone.” MenDoeStillsRealRealityTodayCultureLeftStreetsCenturyDegreesThirdsTheaterAncientCrowdsPhrasesPioneersPublic EducationForumsIlliteracyAncient TimesAlexandria Author:George Sarton
“In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.” WayDoeAbleActorsIndividualDarkAudienceMassTheaterCrowdsBotherDisturbing Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.” MenStillsTheaterCrowdsExcitedReactionsPerformingPerformersAdsPerforming Live Author:Marilyn Manson
“I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.” PeopleThinkingShowsBitsMaterialsPureJokesTheaterCrowdsExcitedVersionsHanging OutPoliteHecklers Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.” IfsKnowsCertainAudienceStageTalentLike YouTheaterCrowdsRoughApolloExpletives Author:Don Alias
“I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.” PeopleBigsTheaterCrowdsNoiseDozenMovie TheaterPleasersCrowd Pleasers Author:Steven Spielberg
“When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.” PeopleIfsWayWantNeedsDifferentAudienceStageFrontsThousandTheaterCrowdsDifferent WaysBallet Author:Suzanne Farrell