The ability to lie persuasively is one of the greatest gifts a woman can possess in this life. Some critics, principally men, will argue that deception in women is inherently evil; but having spent the...

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don’t necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they’re watching.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I think that comes from being a dancer and from being in the theater since I was four years old. It teaches you discipline.

Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full...

I’ve just taken the decision that I’m going to now go full time back into the theater.

Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don’t think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

I think solo shows are starting to be viewed as legitimate theater.

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

And the 442nd (Regimental Combat) Team emerged from the European theater as the single most decorated outfit to return from Europe.

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

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people – most of whom you don’t know – sitting in the dark.

I wasn’t even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

TV is like theater. You can’t enjoy it without a program.

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that’s really kind of a contradiction.

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does...

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough...

You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

I knew the Phoenix Theatre was going down, that’s why I looked for another facility to direct, to do theater.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date...

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only...

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I’d love to go back and do theater. There’s nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the...

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a...

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

I carry a little plastic tub with me, and I put my most valuable possessions in them—my means of travel, which are my feet. I soak them, sometimes for hours, while I watch a movie...

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

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

The pool was almost like a theater. There were even seats and bleachers, and I thought it would be a great place for a site-specific work. I would take dancers and videotape their movements in...