“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.” TryingLinesActingStepsAudienceEffectsStageMonthsPerformancesTheaterImprovementRepetitionReciting Author:Alfred Molina
“In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.” KnowsFilmActorsLinesActingAudienceCuttingSeeingTheaterCamerasSignificantPlotSock Author:Susan Sarandon
“It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.” MenHumansWarNightVoiceCommunityLinesHistoryDarknessHeardRedMadnessTheaterStrikesClockDawnCivil WarBrownDisorderSaneImmenseThreadIrrationalAmerican Civil WarBindingCoherenceHarperFerryRed ThreadJohn BrownJohn Wilkes Booth Author:Bruce Catton
“People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsI CanDifferentSometimesPlayGamesLinesWeekTheaterYeahCourtCome UpBoringEightTennisAnalogies Author:Kevin Spacey
“because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.” LostLinesStageGoes OnMouthsDecidedTheaterBoundsSouthernSoutherner Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen
“I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.” FirstsStillsPlaySchoolAmericaLinesMoonTheaterArchitectBanquets Author:Mako Iwamatsu
“The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.” YearsHumansHeartMayMeanLongArtPurposeActorsEnergyStrongEasyLinesEffortActingMastersConstitutionTheaterExcellenceInstinctTheatreTechniqueFeaturesCharmRequirementsConquestAssuranceSimplestDiligent Author:Julia Marlowe
“I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.” CharacterStoriesGivenLinesJourneyTheaterMusicalI've LearnedPlotGestures Author:Trey Anastasio
“In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.” EndsUseFilmLinesAudienceCuttingFrontsTvsDirectorsPerformancesTheaterCreditThe End Of The DayAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Jonathan Groff
“In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.” ArtWholeWould BeTurnsLinesAudiencePiecesStageTheaterFolksAcceptableProstitutionPolaroids Author:Annie Sprinkle
“I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.” ThinkingYearsLittlesFeelingsFilmUsedSoundLinesSpacePaySawsWallYears AgoWindowTheaterOriginalsI RealizedUsed To BeBotherProjectionSupermarketsMovie TheaterSound Of MusicAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day.” WayTryingShowsLinesMy OwnAudienceWrittenMagicWeekStageTestsTheaterLaughedScreeningTrying To Change Author:David Copperfield
“I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.” PeopleTryingKindChildrenArtArtistGrowthLinesCreativeClearExpressionMusicianTheaterRaisedPhotographerPainterHippieCreative Expression Author:Jared Leto
“Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.” WellsSchoolLinesDesignTheaterChicagoCostumes Author:John Malkovich
“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.” MayEndsSeemsLinesNew YorkSeriousDiedTheaterLifetimeAbsurd Author:Arthur Miller
“In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.” RealNightHoursLinesStreetsTheater Author:Orson Welles
“D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production” KindLittlesDifferentWholeDesireLinesSecretTheaterProductionsBoxesSexualityImpressionFantasticDirtyFactoriesArtificialBizarrePsychoanalysisBourgeoisTrianglesStiflingMotifs Author:Gilles Deleuze
“I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.” MenFirstsLooksI CanFoundLinesMetsBiggerTheaterExpertsGlancesLarryBullied Author:Peter O'Toole
“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.” InspirationalWarFunnyFilmFightingLinesRoomsComedyHollywoodTheaterAll TimeCinemaGentlemanClassicMovieHelloIconicBest TimesGreat AmericanStop WorryingAll The BestGreat FilmMovie TheaterInfamyBig MovieHollywood MoviesAmerican MovieAmerican FilmBest FilmGreat YearBooks And MoviesHollywood FilmsInstitutesMovie ActorsGreatest MovieWar MovieAll Time FavoriteFilm ActorsAll Time Best MovieAll Time BestFilms And MoviesClassic MovieAll Time GreatestClassic FilmsQuoting MoviesFilm MusicIconic MovieMovie LinesBest ComedyOne Line Movie1984 MovieComedy MoviePopular MovieMovies And Music Author:Peter Sellers
“My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.” RealityParentLinesSpecialTheaterPossessedSomething SpecialStood Up Author:Raul Julia