“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.” ThinkingWellsHardActorsWatchesTheaterPainfulBad MoviesPainful Experiences Author:Zoe Kazan
“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.” HardWantedFilmYoungPurposeWalksClearWalkingDirectorsSkillsTheaterVictimSticksTortureHard TimesKillersBrutalYoung WomenSpineCreeksCredentialsTrackingMutilation Author:Roger Ebert
“When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentHardHappensNextTheaterWant SomethingHard Things Author:James Gunn
“It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.” PeopleFeelsLittlesHardPlayEnergyBitsWalksRoomsEnvironmentRocksDangerousLittle BitStandingTheaterDown AndDrinkingDrySmokingRock N RollComplacentDead PeopleSmoking And Drinking Author:Jack White
“I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.” ThinkingFeelsShouldTryingPersonsDifferentHardPlayCharacterClassOne ThingEffectsTheaterWho You AreRelateHelpful Author:Ryan Gosling
“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
“The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.” PeopleSometimesHardShowsRunningFilmStuffSawsHugeTheaterOriginalsCompetitionStudiosVersionsFilmmakerReportsEarning Author:Tom Hanks
“I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.” PeopleWantLongMatterHardActorsHard WorkLong TimeTheaterTownsNo Matter WhatGladGoing AwayLocationGood PlacePlaces To GoMovie Theater Author:Adam Sandler
“If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.” IfsBelieveKindStillsHardTalkingTheaterSnakes Author:Bill Maher
“What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.” PeopleKnowsHardFilmActingAudienceSittingTheaterInvisible Author:Cate Blanchett
“The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.” LongHardBigsTelevisionCommitmentTheaterConjunctions Author:Sarah Paulson
“We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksHardThreeAsksHoursWatchesSeeingFansNew YorkCollegeBasketballTheaterBunchTunesCollege BasketballLive Theater Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.” HardPlayGamesWatchesFootballTheaterAgain And AgainHeartbreakingDisappointing Author:John Malkovich
“Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change.” PeopleWayStillsHardHeavenSoundSituationTheaterGods WillAbsurdThis LifeVainFuryBetter WaysGoodwillSignifying Author:Jeremiah Wright
“I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.” HardPlayBeatsTheater Author:Justin Hartley
“When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.” KindLongArtEndsHardSeemsRunningUsedArtistInterestingImpossibleTheaterEveningAlternativesClockCurtainsAbsorbing Author:Rex Harrison
“I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.” LongSometimesHardEnoughRunningNew YorkTheaterBlessedStuckLong RunsSoap Author:Susan Sullivan
“The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.” FirstsHardTaughtHard WorkDisciplineTrainingTheaterAppreciationDedicationWork Dedication Author:Ben Vereen
“I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.” FeelsFirstsHardDonePlayWorkMy OwnRolesHard WorkFirst TimeTheaterTheatrical Author:Gregory Harrison
“I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.” YearsHardDoneUsedWorkKnownCrazyTheater Author:Sutton Foster