#theater

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away. ↗

— Jason Statham

#bored #entertaining #get #make #people

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#company #esteem #find #grandest #happened

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. ↗

— Roger Stone

#me #own #performance #performance art #politics

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#film #medium #now #over #still

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things. ↗

— Dominique Swain

#books #bring #emotions #feel #makes

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#go #i #idea #location #magical

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#believe #caught #deeply #either #i

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#character #comes #doing #fire #front

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#because #i #life #like #off