“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.” MomentsEnergyHoursHalfTheaterIndescribableLive Theater Author:Adrianne Palicki
“Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.” IdeasMomentsActionFilmActorsWeekTheaterEightRepeatsMethodology Author:Stephen Daldry
“What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.” MomentsLightMysteryBiggerTheaterBoxesExcitedMovie Theater Author:J. J. Abrams
“Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."” MayMomentsAbleEnjoyMysteryGainsTheaterPainfulDelightVersionsEnjoymentVansBad MoviesMasochisticVan HelsingFunny Moments Author:James Berardinelli
“I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.” ThinkingPlayMomentsWantedActorsSawsTheaterAtmosphereFourteen Author:Louis Garrel
“Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.” PeopleMomentsFormCertainNextLaughingComedyCryExpressionTheaterCombinationMaking People LaughCombiningAstounded Author:Aleksey Igudesman
“People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.” PeopleMomentsRomanceActorsFoundImpossibleStageCryLoversTheaterEndureWaveBelovedChairsCheerSweetnessFound The One Author:Bette Davis
“If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.” IfsKnowsHumansPlayWholeMomentsActorsHuman BeingsSilenceLike YouTheaterActressesLoudThat MomentWorthwhileReceiving Author:Shelley Winters
“Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.” WayDoeArtMomentsNextTheaterCome UpNewspapersPredicting Author:Arthur Miller
“Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you different views of the character; the emotional highlights of a moment.” GivingWritingDifferentWholeMomentsCharacterViewsResponsibilityEmotionalTheaterFishesPlotHighlightsDifferent Views Author:Frank Wildhorn
“At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.” ThinkingWantYearsDoneMomentsActorsActingStageProjectsTheaterStudiosDevotedEnablingTrajectory Author:Andy Serkis
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.” IfsMindDoeIdeasMomentsSeemsNextBrainWonderCreativityWorryFocusDangerInspireGoes OnTragedyTheaterSafetyTradeAncientInsightSensesTricksCraftsTriumphAnalysisBagsElitesFloatsRapidsParticlesFear Of DeathFilesGambleHunchesInspire CreativityFugueAutopilotTragedy And Triumph Author:Diane Ackerman
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.” MomentsCommunityAtheismConnectionsEternityTheaterAtheistThat Moment Author:Edward Teller
“For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.” LooksKindMeanArtMadeMomentsPaintingSeriousArt IsTheaterSeriesEndlessSpotsThat MomentSpotlightImplied Author:Damien Hirst
“Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.” PeopleBelieveRealMomentsStoriesMovingSpaceFrontsCrossesTheaterEverydayBridgesThat MomentEveryday LifeInvitedMoving In Author:Cate Blanchett
“What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?” PeopleWorldBelieveWellsLongMomentsRealityLightFormSecretWonderDarknessAudienceDoorsObjectsMastersSummerTheaterMethodWinterDisappearInvisibleUnconsciousAtomsLong AgoTrapsPullingClosetsMagicianRabbitsTransformingDazzlingApprenticeship Author:Jane Roberts
“I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.” StillsMomentsUsedTheaterPainterNarrative Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.” SaidDoneMomentsEmotionalDirectorsTheaterBritishGreat MenMentorDocumentaries Author:Susanna White
“I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.” WantWholeMomentsArtistGivenTheaterBroadway Author:Ariana Grande
“It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again." And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMadeMomentsTheaterNot Sure Author:Jodie Foster
“I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film, you just have to get one moment right; you're practically by yourself. And in theater, you actually have to have a relationship with the audience.” ThinkingMomentsFilmDifferencesLove IsAudienceTheaterMaking LoveMasturbation Author:Susan Sarandon
“Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.” KnowsMomentsActorsKnow HowGenerationsTheaterGreat ActorsViola Author:Denzel Washington
“It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.” WantFeelsMomentsRunningAbleGuyTurnsHoursFiveFourRocksOne DayTheaterThanksNosesRock N RollJerseyCokeNew JerseyProudest Moments Author:George Carlin
“What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may well happen, and I say this to my Palestinian friends, that the Palestinians have in a certain way missed their hour. They had their moment when the world's public opinion was behind them, and a considerable part of the Israeli public was willing to compromise with them.” WorldWayWellsMayWholeMomentsHappensCertainHoursBehindsOpinionViolenceMiddleWillingTheaterEastCompromiseMiddle EastPalestinianPublic OpinionIsraeliEscalation Author:Amos Oz
“There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.” KnowsMomentsShowsSeemsGivenStrangeTestsTheaterFantasticWho We AreCosmic Author:Richard Paul Evans