#theater

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to designate oneself as a body simultaneously living and dead: the whitened bust of the totemic theater, the man with the painted face in the Chinese theater, the rice-paste makeup of the Indian Katha-Kali, the Japanese No mask ... Now it is this same relation which I find in the Photograph; however 'lifelike' we strive to make it (and this frenzy to be lifelike can only be our mythic denial of an apprehension of death), Photography is a kind of primitive theater, a kind of Tableau Vivant, a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#photography #theater #death

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#like #program #theater #tv #without

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being. ↗

— James Belushi

#celebrities #chicago #democratic #general #human

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#ask #customers #go #i #i am

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. ↗

— Richard Lamm

#got #know #leave #like #politics

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! ↗

— Nathan Lane

#look #math #musical #musical theater #single

I don't think about going back to the theater. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#back #going #i #theater #think

The theater is magical and addictive. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#magical #theater

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them. ↗

— Denis Leary

#biggest #camera #come #forget #i

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#coughing #criticism #respiratory #theater