“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
“My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.” UsedMotherReadingTheaterActressesDrag Author:Alicia Keys
“J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.” MenShouldReadingCenturyTheaterRemarkableTwentieth CenturyPioneersTherapistsPsychotherapy Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.” ReadingReaderTheaterLibraryMausoleum Author:Mason Cooley
“It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.” ReadingTheaterPoetry Reading Author:A. R. Ammons
“Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.” IdeasKidsReadingHouseTenPaperPagesTheaterMilesLearning To ReadRadius Author:Alonso Duralde
“The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.” IfsShouldKindDoeRunningReadingHellMarkTheaterEntertainmentCandleDocumentsStainsDiningMenusInteractiveAlluring Author:Joe Bastianich
“I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research.” KnowsPlayReadingResearchTheaterBrushes Author:Taissa Farmiga
“I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you.” KnowsSometimesPlayReadingResearchSittingTheaterCompareSeatsBrushesRehearsal Author:Taissa Farmiga
“For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.” LongFilmReadingReaderLong TimeTheater Author:Lisa Lucas
“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 love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!” ReadingWalkingTheaterDancingMovie LoveBikingKayaking Author:Judy Blume
“For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.” WorldWarHappensReadingTheaterSouthTalesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IBiographiesHawaiiPacificManchesterMacarthur Author:Dave Barry
“These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.” PeopleKnowsWritingBelieveChildrenStoriesYoungReadingI BelieveEnjoyClassTeachSunStudentsPoetReaderHabitTheaterScriptsContemporaryRelateThese DaysUsualInteractionTwilightCraveGood WritingAnnaReading Habits Author:Renee Watson
“Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.” IfsLittlesBookDifferentShowsHappensActionReadingPagesTheaterButtonsCurtainsLiftingAdrenalinePumpsKindlesIpads Author:Art Spiegelman
“We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.” ThinkingWayLittlesHomeSchoolGirlReadingSecretCitiesOpinionFieldsYouthSickTheaterDistanceWinterLibraryNostalgiaGreekAnxiousConsumedSplendorMichiganMindlessCuisineNancyBlandFauxWinter DaysExpatriatesNancy DrewCough DropsHome Sick Author:Audrey Niffenegger