#theater

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#audience #believe #breathe #chance #costume

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#audience #cry #feel #getting #i

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#never #person #shy #shy person #theater

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#dreams #gone #gone with the wind #just #like

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#had #i #just #study #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've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older. ↗

— JoJo

#actually #been #boy #did #experience

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#i #new #new york #spent #theater

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

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies. ↗

— Jerzy Grotowski

#beauty #masterpiece #theater #art