#theater

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought. ↗

— Louise Fletcher

#been #go #gone #guts #had

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different. ↗

— Austin Peck

#agree #any #crowd #different #energy

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#play #playing-roles #stage #theater #art

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too ↗

— Lucien Bourjeily

#actor #actress #immersive #interactive-theater #multisensory

And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind'—putting words into other people's mouths. And those people are played by people whose profession is to pretend to be other people. For which purpose, they adopt gestures, voices, intonations, even sexual attitudes not their own. On stage, they affect to be ravished and amused by someone whom they will, afterwards, run a mile to avoid having dinner with. Likewise, they spit torrents of abuse against an actor who later, later, in the softness of the night, they will share their bed with. ↗

— David Hare

#attitude

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #mystery #playwriting #theater #writing

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country. ↗

— Tony Randall

#classical #country #county #every #everyone

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#go #helped #living #people #poetry

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#acting #actually #also #completely #different

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#been #had #i #leading #leading man