Heat Quotes - Page 5

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I’m essentially a theatre trained actor and that’s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I’m very lucky.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.