Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Al Pacino

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Chris Bohjalian

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Chita Rivera

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

Edith Wharton

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

David Tudor

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

David Hockney

If you are not playful you are not alive.

Audre Lorde

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

Charlie Kaufman

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Tom Stoppard

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.