Quotes about Theater

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

My whole life is a theater piece.

but I still held my breath waiting for Brünnhilde to rise up out of the pyre at the end. And then, instead of a beautiful maiden emerging from the flames, there rose up a great fat

Affection is the lively representment of any passion whatsoever, as if the figures stood not upon a cloth or board, but as if they were acting upon a stage.Wotton'sArchitecture.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

Drama dies without an audience

'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

When I get older, if they ever do a project about Audra McDonald's life, I would love to play her, or even play her daughter in something. I love her.