“It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.” ShowsDreamBigsSchoolActorsCommunityNew YorkTheaterCaliforniaNyuSchools And Community Author:Christine Taylor
“Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's solved completely. It's a letdown. It always seems less than what we imagined when the mystery was present. The last scene in `Blow Up' is so perfect because you leave the theater still dreaming. Or the end of `Chinatown,' where the guy says `Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' It explains so much but it only gives you a dream of a bigger mystery. Like life. For me, I want to solve certain things but leave some room to dream.” WantGivingHumansStillsEndsDreamSeemsLastsGuyCertainHuman BeingsPerfectForgetRoomsMysterySceneBiggerTheaterBlowSolveForget ItDetectivesJakeLetdownsChinatown Author:David
“on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.” WorldRealDreamBodyMovingDiesCreativeTheaterUnionsBreatheCraftsAgentsOwnersIronBitesHostTicketsEstatesBroadwayLungsVultureBrokersSpeculators Book:The New York I Know Source: The New York I Know
“my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that. The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program is, the more I feel it's TV. ... Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of PBS - heavy-duty Masterpiece Theater, Bill Moyers - I hate all that.” FeelsIdeasDifferentDreamAgeHateStuffTelevisionTvsDutyProgramHollywoodI HateTheaterBillsHeavySomedayMasterpieceTabloidsMonitoringPbs Author:Camille Paglia
“I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.” ThinkingWantImportantDreamAbleAudienceStageMinesOne DayTheaterBroadwayLive Theater Author:Naturi Naughton
“I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.” DreamSchoolChanceMinesTheater Author:Matthew Settle
“The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.” SoulDreamCareMovingArtistActorsLeftHoursForgetRoomsActingBehindsQualityPersonalityTheaterIndividualityNobleSensationsDressingsExhibitsAnother LifeDressing RoomsVexation Author:Sarah Bernhardt
“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesRealCharacterStoriesWisdomDreamRealityRunningBitsCommunitySpaceHistoryImagineGenerationsHuman NatureLittle BitIllusionTheaterIndividualityVersionsIdeologyGeographyFunny ThingsMaking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.” ThinkingWorldNeedsFeelsLittlesStillsTwoSoulProblemDreamKidsUsedHoursDarkBrainBoysDarknessModernListeningHealthySittingTheaterPaintRadioClosetsEnd TimesModern WorldSpend TimeDisturbedGlowingLittle BoysMovie TheaterHealthy And HappyAlone In The Dark Author:Peter Stormare
“I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.” ThinkingWorldImportantDreamFilmActingForeverTheaterNobleProfessionDream WorldLove FilmsSnobbyFilm ActingNoble Profession Author:Rebecca Hall
“I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.” StatesDreamRunningLyingMorningLuckyBedPicksEarsWake UpTheaterMetaphorAwakeWaking Author:Ray Bradbury
“It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDreamWould BeVoiceKnow HowMinesTheaterMusicalRelatedBroadwayBroadway Musical Author:Alexa Ray Joel
“I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in the trailer, and then my name came up on the credits, and this is the dream you dare to dream, that came true.” DreamFacesNamesWatchesWeekCoupleTheaterDareCreditTrailersDare To Dream Author:Robert Kazinsky
“The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the fans would love it and also as important had the opportunity to cross over out of the fans because of the price-point. You make a film that's 60 million dollars you can't just appeal to musical theater fans.” ImportantShowsDreamFilmOpportunityMillionsFansCrossesTheaterDollarsMusicalAppealsEngagedLooking GoodDnaMillion DollarsMusical Theater Author:Eric Fellner
“I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.” ThinkingWorldWayYearsDifferentDreamStarsEasyFiveTheaterCaliforniaAspirationFive YearsModelingDifferent WorldsEasy WayFive Year OldsDreams And Aspirations Author:Linda Blair
“We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"” KnowsWritingLittlesPlayDreamWould BeUsedGuySongTurnsNextStuffRoomsDoorsStyleRootsTheaterJazzLoudIronMetalsRehearsalJamWriting SongsMaidensIron MaidenCover SongsDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.” FeelingsDreamTogetherBornTasteTheaterDefeatDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory.” KnowsWayKindPlayUseDreamSongMemoriesKnow HowApproachTheaterRelyReviewsJordanCover SongsDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.” DreamWantedCertainSoundTypeTheaterMusicalCurrentsAlbumsProducersLandscapeVintageDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“Even with Dream Theater, we track in a big studio and everything. But when it comes to doing leads, I don't really require a lot of studio to do that. I need a good sounding room and a Pro Tools rig, and some Neve mic-pres, and I'm good.” NeedsDreamBigsRoomsToolsTheaterTrackStudiosMicsRigsDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensDreamBigsArtistStuffVoiceCareersTheaterMusicalWork OutNineEnjoyedSoloNine YearsMusical Theater Author:Luke Evans
“It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.” PeopleIfsWayKindFeelingsDreamMightFilmFineTheaterFleetingNot Alone Author:Werner Herzog
“I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"” PeopleDifferentDreamMovingViewsPiecesMagicStageApproachTheaterPoint Of ViewTricksStorytellingCardsCoinsCard Tricks Author:David Copperfield
“Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.” BelieveIdeasDreamFilmI BelieveTalkingCreativeTheaterI Believe InCollaboration Author:Julie Taymor
“I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?” GivingWellsDreamRealitySeemsActorsAudienceAirBloodStageSceneTheaterStormPainterDustCuriousManagersDesertLakesGrainBreezeHandfulPlaywrightPondsHyperInfernoSubmergedStage Managers Author:W. G. Sebald
“On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.” DreamEyeYoungGirlStarsFeetMarkTheaterRadioDeterminedNewspapersBitesMarathonAdvertisementsFellasContestantsVaudeville Author:Libba Bray
“Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.” PeopleDreamSawsComedyFieldsTheaterSatSeatsAfternoonLocationDevastatedField Of Dreams Author:Paul Reiser
“To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.” KnowsWantFactsDreamWould BeFilmWalksSecretStepsWatchesSpringTheaterGet UpNarrativeSeatsInsultPocketsCashOriginalityLaddersRegisterStep UpClimaxEscalatorsRewind Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006
“For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?” WorldWantHeartPlayWholeDreamHalfStageMy HeartThirdsTheaterBlindGlassesDelightWhole WorldPairsOperaFar AwayOrchestraSpectatorsSpectaclesPrelude Author:Isaac Babel
“I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.” WayDreamPowerLet MeTheaterWetChasingBillionaireManhattanDiningWet Dreams Author:Michael Bloomberg