“Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.” ArtShowsSeemsSpiritPaintingFineTheaterAtmosphereHallsMuseumsLackingInteriorsEnteringListening To MusicGalleryArt GalleriesMusic Hall Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.” ThinkingReasonFactsSeemsTodayPoliticsDifficultHavensHarderTheaterConservativeAbundanceLiberalismStanceSmall Minds Author:Derek R. Audette
“Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's solved completely. It's a letdown. It always seems less than what we imagined when the mystery was present. The last scene in `Blow Up' is so perfect because you leave the theater still dreaming. Or the end of `Chinatown,' where the guy says `Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' It explains so much but it only gives you a dream of a bigger mystery. Like life. For me, I want to solve certain things but leave some room to dream.” WantGivingHumansStillsEndsDreamSeemsLastsGuyCertainHuman BeingsPerfectForgetRoomsMysterySceneBiggerTheaterBlowSolveForget ItDetectivesJakeLetdownsChinatown Author:David
“All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.” SeemsYoungFemaleTheaterTrainUglyDragHandsomeOld WomanFemale Friends Author:Martial
“Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.” GivingSeemsFilmRomanceLyingCertainInterestHavensAmountSceneTheaterSexyMovieNecksDaringOffenseMechanicConvincingSexuallyMovie LoveSadism Author:Renata Adler
“As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.” NeedsMaySeemsFilmNextActorsRolesMediaRelationTheaterPhotographCampaignsAngleExposurePromotingFlatteringPublic RelationsFilm Set Author:Carson Grant
“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.” WayPlayProblemSeemsUsedTakenRiskStageNew YorkPicksEnglandTheaterOriginalsProductionsUsed To BeJustificationCreamTicketsBroadway Author:Arthur Miller
“I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.” PeopleWantMindBookSeemsWalksRolesTheaterDinnerTacklingNumbing Author:Robert Sean Leonard
“The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.” SeemsFilmFailingTheaterGreat ThingsWirePresenting Author:Chris Pine
“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 love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.” WellsSometimesSeemsArtistAttitudeAudienceNiceBenefitsTheaterFilledClubsPerformersSoloSupportiveFestivalsGigsTheatricalVenues Author:Maria Bamford
“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.” GivingCharacterSeemsActionFilmViewsNumbersSituationAudienceDirectorsTheaterPoint Of ViewObjectivesObservationCinemaIntimateAngleViewersSubjectiveSpectatorsParticipantsViewpointsIdentificationMovie Director Author:Ed Murray
“Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.” IdeasDifferentSeemsPiecesNew YorkSkillsTheaterExcitedMediumsMysteriousFrightening Author:Cary Fukunaga
“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
“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
“Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.” SeemsWalksTvsTheaterCake Author:Julia Stiles
“Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.” DoneSeemsTheaterPerformingUnbeatableLive Theater Author:Val Kilmer
“The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.” DoeProblemSeemsMy OwnAchieveDestructionTheaterKillingVariousCoreObjectivesEngagedAstonishing Author:James Mattis
“It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.” PeopleWantSeemsActorsNaturalDarkTheaterDisappearShyMeant To BeShynessExhibitionist Author:Nicole Kidman
“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
“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
“I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?” GivingWellsDreamRealitySeemsActorsAudienceAirBloodStageSceneTheaterStormPainterDustCuriousManagersDesertLakesGrainBreezeHandfulPlaywrightPondsHyperInfernoSubmergedStage Managers Author:W. G. Sebald
“As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.” SeemsWantedFacesLyingMotherFatherSawsTheaterSignificantMuseumsCouchesAnklesSignificant Change Author:Louise Glück
“I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.” IfsHas BeensSeemsAgeWhiteWonderMiddleArmyTheaterProofFamiliarRuinsDenialIf I CouldCould Have BeenMiddle AgesLegionEscalades Author:George S. Patton
“When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.” KindLongArtEndsHardSeemsRunningUsedArtistInterestingImpossibleTheaterEveningAlternativesClockCurtainsAbsorbing Author:Rex Harrison
“Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.” PeopleNeedsStillsSeemsTodayRealizingNeededTheaterReactionsOur SocietyObscureParts Of LifeSociety Today Author:Aaron Tveit
“I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsSeemsTheaterForgottenArrogantArrogant People Book:Plays Source: Plays
“It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up ideas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of his mind. It adds stature to life.” PeopleMenGivingTryingMindArtIdeasRealFactsLightSeemsShareArt IsShadowTheaterAddWorthwhileIlluminationStatureLight UpLurking Author:Brooks Atkinson