Theater Quotes

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half. Adrianne Palicki
You Half Energy Live Indescribable Hour Hour And A Half Just Theater Moment Live Theater
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway. Adrianne Palicki
Love Broadway Television Obviously Theater Working Film Film And Television Started
You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling. Adrien Brody
You Father Rumors Someone Databases Know How Go References Just Children Theater Storytelling Room Might Really Many Nickname Watch
When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that. Adrienne C. Moore
Work Character Me You Yourself Words Sometimes Focus Think Television Out Allowed Sharp Sort Quick Very Quickly Theater Ground Sequence Filming
The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine. Adrienne Mayor
God Great Library People Medicine Mediterranean Monumental Giants Minor All-Around Temple Seeking Vast Altar Around Came Cultural Cures Gods Famous Center Theater Asia Decorated Sculptures Spectacular Defeating Olympian
My first wife was a theater person. Ahmet Ertegun
Wife First Person Theater
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica. Aida Turturro
Teacher College Studied New Named Robert Also Years Privately York New York Theater NYC Four
I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. Aidan Turner
School Dublin Years Left Five Did After Gaiety Theater Acting
It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it. Aileen Quinn
Love Me You Stage Took Teens Intimacy Easier Eat Comfortable Years Up Louder Get Screen Bigger Theater Prefer Many Conquered Now Harder Actually
I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.' Aja Naomi King
Thought Broadway Going Theater
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me. Al Pacino
Me Remember Gone Way Running Always Been Going Theater Fleeing Cope Coping Early Career
Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too. Al Pacino
Me Too Point Lifestyle Theater
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater. Alan Alda
Love Words Argument Stage Characters About More Through Tension Between Than Theater Themselves Used Express Images
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. Alan Cumming
Knowledge You Television Scene Writers Nobody Know Knows Always How Go End Going Where Happen Story Theater Certain Even Each Film Play Thing
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub. Alan Furst
Work Me School Mother Father Young Would Ruth Through Put Parties She Learn Cub Private Camp Private School Selling Office Died Movie Theater Sent Her Compete
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. Alan Rickman
Time You Animal Become Kind About Rather Tact Instincts Lot Very Than Theater Acting Aware
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble. Alan Rickman
Trouble Unless Ourselves Tell About Stories Which Theater Deep
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. Alan Rickman
Time You Hate Think Scary Climb Lot Mount Mount Everest Oh Place Theater Again Everest Tonight
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different. Alec Baldwin
Love Time Day You Minutes More Get Maybe Just Different Theater Movies Act Acting
The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves. Alec Baldwin
Sense Of Humor Humor Sense Wealthy About Like Perhaps Any Where Place Theater Themselves English
I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Experience Three Control Live Possibility Direct Scary Studied Vulnerable Without Years Very Being Theater Exposed Things
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. Alex Ebert
Architecture Try Building Seems Almost Like Audience Close Greek Place Theater Create Connection
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind. Alex Flinn
Writing Mind College Ambition Other Musical Musical Theater Would Voice Never Scholarship Attend Although Theater Far Star
From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy. Alexander Koch
Life Time Crazy Age My Life Young Incomplete Every Every Time Musical Musical Theater Had Sure Felt Lot Stir Very Done Just Young Age Wanted Theater Little Really Acting Away
By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up. Alexandra Shipp
Time Me Man Cheese First Way Phoenix Kid Geeky Beat Lead Lead Role Limelight Got Doing Stinky Up Role Get Taste Artistic Just Stop Theater By The Time Plays
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. Alfred Jarry
Life Character Conflict New Life Enough Virile Complete Those Only Impersonal Masks New Know Passions Than Either Theater Create Who Bringing
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