“I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.” TryingImportantNightTheaterConvinceAlways TryingAltered Author:Jennifer Damiano
“A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.” ImportantAudienceElementsTheaterGood Endings Author:Walt Disney
“Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.” ImportantDoneTheaterImportant ThingsPeter Author:Mary Martin
“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
“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.” ImportantBookFoundWishInterestPerfectSubjectsFiguresLoversEqualTheaterShiningFascinatingColleaguesVividPrivate LifeBiographersLovers And Friends Author:Marian Seldes
“One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.” PeopleMenGivingFirstsKindImportantBookPlayShowsPleasureProduceDadGive MeTheaterMy DadProducersSoloPioneersShakespeare Play Author:John Lithgow
“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 think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.” PeopleThinkingImportantSpaceTheater Author:Cate Blanchett
“Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to realize that maybe my talents as a musician were quite limited, or had a ceiling to them, whereas acting seemed to sort of stretch before me. I got very passionate about it very quickly.” ImportantAgeRealizingActingTalentMusicianTheaterPassionateAccidentsCeilings Author:Cillian Murphy
“In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanImportantActorsTermPiecesStageDangerousReturnPeriodsTheater Author:Cillian Murphy
“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
“The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.” ImportantHomeAudienceTheaterValuableExcitementExpensiveHave FaithRecognizing Author:Nick Blaemire
“The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.” ThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsKindImportantDifferentBigsAbleFilmMovingTvsTheaterMediums Author:Julie Halston
“I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.” WorldMeanChildrenPersonsImportantInspirationReadingFatherHugeInvolvedMarriedBiggerEnglandTheaterMy ChildrenFuelImportant Person Author:Mary Steenburgen
“I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv demands that you be operating at the highest level of your creativity intelligence. So these two skills are both very important but I've seen people who are very skilled at one area struggle with the other. Either improvisers feel constrained by having to say the same thing over and over again or people who are really good at doing scripted work feel intimidated and exposed doing improvisation.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTwoImportantNightLevelsCreativityStruggleSkillsDemandHighestAreasTheaterExposedEvery NightImprovisationIntimidated Author:Gillian Jacobs
“That's very important to me as well: presentation and how people perceive you, the visual of how things look, your posture. I learned that from [Bob] Fosse and Jerome Robbins, from all the great theater directors and the Busby Berkeleys. You overdeliver: visually, emotionally.” PeopleWellsLooksImportantDirectorsTheaterPerceiveVisualsBobPresentationPostureBerkeleyFosse Author:Judd Apatow
“I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.” IfsImportantPlayShowsWantedSongGirlNextGrowingHeardMinutesNew YorkLike YouGrewTasteGrew UpTheaterMusicalHip HopPopsHipsHopsRitualTapeCdsShowing OffI Like YouPop SongMatingMusical TheaterCassettesHip Hop Song Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.” PeopleImportantOrderPrinciplesTheaterAwardsMovie Theater Author:Javier Bardem
“I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just said porn," Scarlett said. "No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me.” IfsNeedsFirstsSaidImportantBookIdeasDoneWould BeTalkingEasierBedTheaterNo Idea Book:Suite Scarlett Source: Suite Scarlett
“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.” PeopleIfsWorldWantLoveLifeHumansImportantBookStoriesWatchesFireTelevisionConversationTheaterImportant ThingsRadioWarriorCinemaChanging The WorldHuman Relationships Author:Paulo Coelho
“I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.” BelieveImportantStoriesFilmI BelieveTvsElementsTheaterMediums Author:Chad Lowe
“I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.” MadeImportantCareersTheater Author:Marcello Mastroianni