Theater Quotes - Page 5

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

I have done a lot of theater.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.

Good drama must be drastic.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.