#heat

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#difficult #done #every #every night #everyday

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#compose #except #had #helped #himself

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enjoy #home #i #just #living

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

— Ethel Merman

#attend #few #i #just #me

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch. ↗

— Debra Messing

#friends #friendship #gay #grace #i

To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives. ↗

— Debra Messing

#extreme #fascinating #happened #life #lives

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#bought #call #everyone #gonna #got

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. ↗

— David Millar

#any #cheaters #clean #human #human nature

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cost #episodes #experience #feeling #had

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#brought #comparison #else #everything #frivolous