“I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.” ProcessMissingTheaterRehearsal Author:Kurtwood Smith
“I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.” KnowsGivingEndsPlayJobsFilmReadingActorsMy OwnStageMissingTelevisionConnectionsPerformancesTheaterLuxuryPathetic Author:Julianna Margulies
“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.” YearsPlayWholeKidsActorsSoundMissingCollegeSeasonsTheaterFestivalsOregonLive Theater Author:Donal Logue
“I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.” CharacterAudienceMissingTheaterResponseCurtainsArcs Author:David Anders
“There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.” PeopleIfsLongActorsActingStageMissingGoes OnTheaterEnormousHaulLong Haul Author:Justin Kirk
“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.” WayWantAmericaCultureClassDoorsMiddleMissingAnxietyAmbitionLowsTheaterEntertainmentMiddle ClassRitualCaptureContestsPolishedVulgarityRespectabilityMiss AmericaHigh Class Author:Gerald Early
“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.” ThinkingShouldDoneBeautifulFilmWhiteOne ThingMissingStudentsTaughtPaperMusicianTheaterDown AndFilledExperimentsComposerDotsBeautiful MusicRectangles Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.” AudienceAliveStageMissingReturnTheaterPerformingGratificationImmediate Gratification Author:Brendan Dooling
“If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.” IfsGivingArtFilmMissingTelevisionGive MeTheaterPerformingPerforming ArtsGive Me Strength Author:Richard Sammel
“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.” ThinkingDifferentBodyHandsLightMovingBoysDarknessStudyMissingLonelyLet MeTheaterShouldersHipsVisualsCigaretteAngleLiftingSlopesSidewaysMovie TheaterI Am Lonely Author:Margaret Atwood
“I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!” ThinkingRememberNamesAnswersWeekMissingCallingTheaterDames Author:Barbara Stanwyck