“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.” KnowsMadeDoneFilmLyingAudienceWonderfulSkinsTheaterCamerasMediumsWonderful ThingsCelluloid Author:Amanda Plummer
“My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.” CharacterHappensChoicesActorsLevelsRolesWonderfulTvsProjectsTheaterSeriesFinancialObviousConsistentPaychecksTv Series Author:Jim Parsons
“The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.” HandsThreeAudienceWonderfulFrontsMonthsSixCommitmentTheaterWonderful ThingsSix MonthsThree Months Author:Treat Williams
“I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.” IfsThinkingHas BeensRealWould BeGirlHoursDarkWonderfulTheaterReal LoveGlamorousAnchorsFemmeFemme FataleMarquee Author:Eve Arden
“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.” WayPlayBeautifulHumanityWonderfulPaintingTheaterCommunicateTheatreBalletOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasBeautiful Paintings Author:Julie Harris
“2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.” WayBookSpaceBoysWonderfulDrugConceptsTheaterScreensVersionsHillsIndianGiantsThrownOdysseyConundrumsSpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Robert Reed
“Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of loneliness. We're alone in the dark of the theater, but with other people.” PeopleArtTogetherFilmFormDarkTalkingWonderfulLonelinessTheaterCinemaCollectivesAlone In The Dark Author:Joachim Trier
“I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.” YearsCareersWonderfulStageTheater Author:Angela Lansbury
“My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.” LifeYearsFirstsBookHomeNextWonderfulGroupsShareChildhoodTelevisionTrainingProgramHollywoodTheaterMemoirPhasesGood FriendArrivalsFormative Years Author:Julie Andrews
“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.” KnowsWritingChildrenRealWantedSchoolFilmGrowing UpTeacherGrowingWonderfulMagicDramaTheaterScriptsExpertsMagicianWonderful FriendsHoudini Author:Kristen Connolly
“It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.” WorldWayFeltWonderfulLandHolyHatredTheaterIronicLocationHoly Land Book:Brain Droppings Source: Brain Droppings
“I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.” WritingLittlesArtStoriesPastFormYoungFeltWonderfulConcernTheaterMeetingsNotesProfoundContrarySingersI RealizedRidiculousDefinedExpensiveOperaSuperficialEnthusiasticExposingHigh Notes Author:Kaija Saariaho
“I was doing a play in New York, which we had done in New Haven, Connecticut. It was an American premiere of a play called The Changing Room written by a wonderful man named David Story. It was about a rugby team in the North of England. It got just screaming rave reviews. At that time, virtually every major critic went up to the Long Wharf Theater to see a new play like that.” MenLongDonePlayStoriesRoomsWonderfulWrittenTeamHavensNew YorkMajorsEnglandTheaterCriticsReviewsRugbyPremieresRaveConnecticutWonderful Man Author:Richard Masur
“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