#theater

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#acting #around #became #came #cared

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

#ludicrous #repertory #specialization #such #theater

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#dinner table #ensemble #every #every night #five

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#cracking #doing #get #hearing #i

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive. ↗

— James Lipton

#between #difference #film #film acting #fundamental

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. ↗

— John Lithgow

#carousel #darkest #experiences #exuberant #filled

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. ↗

— John Lithgow

#end #go #most #sensible #sitcom

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#available #dvd #exist #movie #movie theaters

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character. ↗

— Jacqueline McKenzie

#acting #acting school #always #australian #been