“Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?” BelieveMatterFactsAsksI BelieveAnswersPossibilityTheaterDareCoreRedemptionWhat Matters Author:Joe Mantello
“I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.” ThinkingReasonFactsSeemsTodayPoliticsDifficultHavensHarderTheaterConservativeAbundanceLiberalismStanceSmall Minds Author:Derek R. Audette
“But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.” PeopleShouldSaidFactsInfluencePercentTheaterStriveRadioJewLawyerNewspapersCinemaEightyPercentagesStressedBerlinPublic LifeAnnihilation Author:Franz von Papen
“In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.” MindMatterFactsFoundForgetAudienceTroubleEasierLaughterPerformancesTheaterCustomersTheatreReactionsEveningForget ItMatter Of FactHanging OnFrame Of Mind Author:Beatrice Lillie
“Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.” FactsNightGivenStepsStageMastersHugeTheaterHonestlyBoardsMatched Author:Chris Pine
“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 know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."” PeopleKnowsSaidTwoReasonPlayFactsThreeActorsSawsYouthTheater Author:David Oyelowo
“Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.” PeopleIfsHumansPersonsCharacterFactsFilmTheaterDespiteRight ThingMotiveDecentSarcasticNastyAmusingCurmudgeon Author:Woody Allen
“Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.” FactsAmericaUsedChallengesHavensHollywoodTheaterKoreaStoker Author:Park Chan-wook
“The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.” MenFactsLyingImaginationPlanetsExerciseTheaterCrisisSeekingSurfaceDimensionsFittingWrecksDynamicsEcoLying Men Author:Terence McKenna
“America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.” PeopleIfsBelieveHas BeensCountryFactsBodyAbleAmericaCultureNumbersMilitaryStyleGunTragedyTheaterWestDirtyMentalityPolicemenArmorArtilleryCarnageWild WestAuroraGun Culture Author:Bob Costas
“This is not a legitimate congressional exercise. This is not a fact-finding hearing. This is theater. This is a charade. This is stage craft. This is nothing more than a political hit job on a women`s right to choose. Which, by the way, is constitutionally protected.” WayFactsJobsPoliticalStageExerciseFindingsTheaterHearingCraftsProtectedCharades Author:Hakeem Jeffries
“I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.” GivingWholeFactsMovingWillingTheaterWhole LifeSoccerMoving InPlaying Soccer Author:Peter Jacobson
“In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.” FactsUseCultureExampleShadowAreasTheaterBackgroundsIndonesiaPuppetsJava Author:Michelle Stuart
“I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.” PeopleThinkingWayFactsFilmNightWonderfulTheaterEvery NightSpontaneousWonderful Things Author:Jodie Foster
“Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.” PeopleThinkingCharacterFactsNightProcessSadnessFindingsTheaterFinishedOpeningDiscoveringRehearsalOpening Night Author:Debra Winger
“I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money.” PeopleFirstsMadeFactsSawsSeriousTheaterEightBillionsIntrigue Author:Casey Neistat
“When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.” MindTwoPlayFactsDifficultLevelsAudiencePureTheaterHandleSymbolsRealistic Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.” PeopleDifferentDoneFactsGenerationsMusic IsTheaterMusicalNew GenerationMusical Theater Author:Claude-Michel Schonberg
“My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.” IfsFeelsShouldChildrenFactsHandsSchoolSawsReturnInvolvedGunTheaterPoliceInstinctTeenagerMotivatedCheeksAcademyDiscouragingBarrelsMovie TheaterPolice Academy Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.” YearsFactsBigsHusbandMachinesTheaterBirthdayMy HusbandFanaticsMy BirthdayPopcornMovie Theater Author:Debbie Macomber
“I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.” MenFactsAbleFilmRealizingTvsLuckyTheaterLove FilmsLucky Man Author:Eric Stoltz
“I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.” ThinkingFactsWould BeChanceActingSeaTheaterConsideringMarineBiologistMarine Biologist Author:Renee O'Connor
“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
“It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up ideas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of his mind. It adds stature to life.” PeopleMenGivingTryingMindArtIdeasRealFactsLightSeemsShareArt IsShadowTheaterAddWorthwhileIlluminationStatureLight UpLurking Author:Brooks Atkinson