Quotes about Theater

Basically, I love to act. The medium is not important.

Acting is acting, be it any medium.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

The more effective policy for a society is to find ways of persuading its thieves to abandon their role as competitors for property for the sake of becoming audience to the theater of wealth. It is for this reason that societies fall back on the skill of those poietai who can theatricalize the property relations, and indeed, all the inner structures of each society.

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.