“I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.” ActorsGenerationsTheaterContemporaryHopefullyMy Generation Author:Jeffrey Wright
“Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.” PeopleIfsWayRealWould BeBeautifulNiceGenerationsTheaterFaultsVampireBeing RealRobotsConvenientMy GenerationMovie Theater Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.” TryingAudienceGenerationsTheaterMusicalNew GenerationMusical Theater Author:Jerry Herman
“a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.” KindLittlesPlayGenerationsTheorySucceedTheaterEndureContraryInterpretationClueAmbiguous Author:Glenda Jackson
“...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 was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.” ChildrenWantedFatherGamesGenerationsSonTheaterBoxingSundayWeekendOnly ChildKung Fu Author:Milla Jovovich
“Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.” KnowsMomentsActorsKnow HowGenerationsTheaterGreat ActorsViola Author:Denzel Washington
“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
“A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived” ShouldWellsMeanWholeAbleGivenForceGenerationsTheaterDeprived Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.” DifferentMotherActorsBitsGoneGenerationsGayTheaterTabooDifferent Generations Author:Dean Cain