“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.” MomentsEnergyHoursHalfTheaterIndescribableLive Theater Author:Adrianne Palicki
“When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.” WayNextWalksHalfWatchesTheaterNext DayMovie TheaterHalf Way Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.” ChristianHouseHalfChristianitySeriousDevelopmentTheaterParis Author:Christian Lacroix
“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.” WorldNeedsYearsPlayShowsAbleFilmGuyHalfMorningAudienceNiceWeekBrotherMonthsDisciplineInvolvedSceneToolsTheaterEightBagsRehearsalYour Brother Author:William Sadler
“Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.” CharacterShowsFunChanceActingHalfTheaterVersionsStorytellingCameos Author:Josh Groban
“I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.” YearsTwoJobsHalfTheaterStoresTwo YearsMovie TheaterHealth FoodTwo Jobs Author:Reggie Watts
“Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.” ActorsInterestingHalfNovelAudienceDirectorsMembersTheaterJoiningAnthem Author:Jeff Britting
“Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.” IfsNeedsAmericaHoursHalfPleaseTheaterMajorityTrust MeBrooklyn Author:David Cross
“If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the guy. So it is a monastic life, it is very lonely, if I was prone to loneliness. It's a lot like wrestling, no one can throw a block for you, no one can give you a pass. Nobody can hand the ball off to you, it's you only for an hour and a half every night.” PeopleIfsGivingHandsNightGuyHoursHalfLonelinessLonelyBallsTheaterBlockWrestlingEvery NightOther GuysMonastic Life Author:Jay Mohr
“Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.” IfsWantMeanTwoBigsLightRunningEarthFilmThreeBrainHalfHellForeverWeekDirectorsTenMachinesTheaterMusicalProductionsBoringHillsGiantsWorking ItPlaywrightHell On EarthFilm SetRehearsingSo Boring Author:Tony Kushner
“In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.” TwoWholeBodyEnergyHoursHalfMonthsSixTheaterReleaseSix MonthsStaminaHalf Hours Author:Alan Rickman
“If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.” IfsWantDoeHalfMoralTheaterJournalismChemistryTuesdayGood JournalismHalf Life Author:Tom Stoppard
“Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'” PeopleLooksWarActorsStarsHalfCompanyReturnSixProgramTwentiesTheaterCreditSecondsEnviousI Smile Author:Caroline Blakiston
“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