“I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.” PeopleReasonJobsLanguageHugeTheaterSatisfiedReason WhyWeekend Author:Mos Def
“I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.” PeopleWorldGivingI CanWatchesAudienceLaughingNiceCryTheaterMovedAround The World Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.” PeopleKindTvsLosingTheaterSpendingLosing Money Author:Mark Duplass
“We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.” PeopleWarStarsGroupsCoupleTheaterExpectedReactionsOpeningWeekend Author:J. J. Abrams
“Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that they go home. This is theater, I think, for two audiences - one probably for the American public to some degree, to make it seem as though the administration is taking this renewed surge of Central Americans seriously.” PeopleThinkingWellsTwoDoneHomeSeemsTalkingAudienceDegreesTheaterAdministration Author:Mark Krikorian
“Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.” PeopleIfsWantWellsRealityLawClearTheaterEnforcement Author:Mark Krikorian
“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.” PeopleKindMeanShowsOrderEffortSeriousCoupleHundredTheaterFinalsRemoveEnforcementRemoval Author:Mark Krikorian
“When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.” PeopleHappensFilmLevelsBreakTheaterIndependentExtraordinaryMainstreamBreak ThroughIndependent Film Author:Karen Allen
“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?” PeopleThinkingWantRealStoriesRoomsMonthsDirectorsAspectTheaterScriptsIsolationReal BeautyReally DeepDelving Author:Karen Allen
“I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.” PeopleSweetTheaterCome UpScreens Author:Karen Allen
“I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.” PeopleWayI CanDifferentStoriesFilmActorsWatchesExpectationsAspectTheaterCamerasCaughtHelpfulCommentAngleCaught UpNever QuitLightingWrong WayCamera Angles Author:Condola Rashad
“Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people even watch one episode. So it's not like a movie theater where you want to the movies to be shorter so you can go urinate. You can pause and urinate at home, and if something is longer, you're allowed to stop and eat breakfast and then watch eight more episodes.” PeopleIfsWantDifferentShowsHomeThreeHoursWatchesFiveSittingTheaterEightBreakfastEpisodesPausesMovie TheaterNetflixDifferent Experiences Author:Judd Apatow
“We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."” PeopleWantBookShowsAbilitySpaceWeekTheaterMovedCarefulHonestlyExperimentsIntimacyBe Careful Author:Scott Aukerman
“Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.” PeopleNeedsNew YorkTheaterLovelyPriestsReminders Author:Stephen Karam
“I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.” PeopleThinkingWayFactsFilmNightWonderfulTheaterEvery NightSpontaneousWonderful Things Author:Jodie Foster
“I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They were just exciting people. And I knew that they were different when I would go see a friend or stay at someone else's house. It just wasn't as cool. So I always loved the theater, and that's where I started: at a theater up in Canada.” PeopleDifferentActorsHouseCompanyExcitingTheaterCanadaHungCrewStoryteller Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.” PeopleIfsNeedsKindWould BeStuffNew YorkPercentTheaterHotelApartmentJunkTouristsVisiting Author:Fran Lebowitz
“When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.” PeopleHeartMayWalksLordWatchesMessagesTheaterRingsBagsDeceivingPopcornMovie Theater Author:LeCrae
“I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldShowsFansHugeTheaterCelebrateBroadwayIntroductionBroadway Shows Author:Tyler Perry
“With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . . Look, it's very weird to have part and parcel of a job to feel like you're a lure for men to come into the theater. Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.” PeopleMenWorldFeelsLooksMayLightEyeJobsCertainSeeingLike YouFameTheaterSexualityInnateLureThrough The EyesParcelSeeing Yourself Author:Rose McGowan
“I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.” PeopleThinkingSometimesFictionElementsTheaterOriginalsScience FictionDistinctionPublishingAdaptationArbitraryVenues Author:Edward Einhorn
“Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.” PeopleThinkingCharacterFactsNightProcessSadnessFindingsTheaterFinishedOpeningDiscoveringRehearsalOpening Night Author:Debra Winger
“Yeah, this is what I think was a quality of movies, is you're in a group of people. You're sharing something with people. Whether those other people make you laugh more, you're all laughing. You're all happy together. There's something... manmade about that in a way that's - I'm not sure how that manifests itself in nature, but culturally we've set that up when we invented theater and the movies and all that stuff.” PeopleThinkingWayTogetherStuffQualityLaughingGroupsTheaterYeahNot SureMake You LaughHappy Together Author:Paul Reubens
“People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.” PeopleMindHas BeensMadeUnderstandingInterestDirectorsDecidedTheaterCuriosityProducersCinemaSeatsLazyPeers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.” PeopleInformationTheaterConsumersFedsMoron Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?” PeopleIfsShouldLooksDifferentBehindsInformationCoupleTheaterNeighborCuriousCinemaFedsOccupationCurtainsSibling Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.” PeopleShowsSeemsCasesTheaterHotSizeBoxesSuitsPocketsSense Of HumorGood SenseParamountWmdDenverGood Sense Of Humor Author:Jim Gaffigan
“There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingLooksHelpingArtistEasyCompanyResourcesTheaterRaisesMagazinesHelplessPowerless Author:Amanda Palmer
“I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money.” PeopleFirstsMadeFactsSawsSeriousTheaterEightBillionsIntrigue Author:Casey Neistat
“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
“When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman, she should consider moving to L.A. and trying to do this professionally." My parents were hesitant, but they would take me.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksSaidMovingParentTheaterActressesTake MeHesitant Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.” PeopleTheaterCleanDirty Author:Oliver Stone
“The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.” PeopleYearsFirstsDoneShowsWaitingBlackParticularProjectsTheaterTeenagerChicagoSustainingStrawberriesCreeksBerkeley Author:Robert Hass
“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
“Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."” PeopleSaidBigsHappensWindowBiggerTheaterBottlesTexasSwimmingMilkPigsOxygenRetiredTanksDoveMermaidCafeteria Author:Margaret Atwood
“In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.” PeopleSaidHomeBodyPastBeautifulUsedFrontsBuildingTheaterDenialVacationDisplayColonialismOur PastThreatenedBrazilDowntownPosingRioOld BuildingsBakeries Author:Sonia Braga
“I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.” PeopleWholeGuyNextTalkingTheater Author:Norm MacDonald
“The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.” PeopleBlackTheaterTheatreCirclesChecksRestaurantsHotelBlack PeopleBalconies Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsYearsKindBigsActionComedyEventsModelsStandardsTheaterStudiosVampireBudgetsBroadsGoing To WorkSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBig Events Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.” PeopleWantShowsFormStageTheaterMusicalManageLeapTranslationsHamiltonMusical Theater Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.” PeopleIfsWayKindFeelingsDreamMightFilmFineTheaterFleetingNot Alone Author:Werner Herzog
“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.” PeopleWorldChildrenArtHelpingArtistOpportunityGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpTeacherComputerMusicianSittingTheaterExposedTake TimeSchedulesComputer ScienceGymnasiumsCommunity Centers Author:Erykah Badu
“I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.” PeopleWayActorsNew YorkCollegeHollywoodTheaterGood Actors Author:Brent Spiner
“I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.” PeopleWellsShowsWrittenNew YorkDirectorsTheaterBroadwayShowing OffBeaversMaury Author:Brent Spiner
“We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.” PeopleParentInterestRichTheaterInspiredRich People Author:Billy Eichner
“Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.” PeopleWorldHas BeensWarCitiesTheaterIncludingAround The WorldSoccerEngagedMarineAprilCommandersBattlefieldsStadiumsGraveyardSiegeGeneral James MattisUs Marine Author:James Mattis
“I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"” PeopleDifferentDreamMovingViewsPiecesMagicStageApproachTheaterPoint Of ViewTricksStorytellingCardsCoinsCard Tricks Author:David Copperfield
“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
“In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It's more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.” PeopleArtStillsSometimesAmericaFormCultureBiggerTheaterGermanyPopcornMovie Love Author:Baran Odar
“I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.” PeopleYearsKindSaidShowsHandsEyeCitiesFiveComedyBecomingMetsTheaterBunchFive YearsThey SaidHipsterSketch ComedySecond City Author:Simon Helberg