#heat

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage. ↗

— A. J. McLean

#i #love #musical #musical theatre #perform

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#cheat #enough #man #poke #want

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#audiences #booked #came #confirmation #doing

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#acting #amadeus #appeared #audience #broadway

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#dame #i #living #made #playing

All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#gonna #got #i #just #kevin

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#agonizing #always #america #because #forgotten

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#camera #house #looking #marks #out

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#answer #formulation #great #great thing #i

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing. ↗

— Hayley Mills

#anything #because #door #ever #feel