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Cinema, Acting, Theater
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in the theater. ~Roman Polanski
The theatre is a bad thing to live on! It gets into one's bones like an illness. One can wash the make-up off one's face, but one gets a theatrical varnish on one's soul, which makes one think of life as a painted cardboard arrangement that is all right as long as it makes a good show, and of God as a kind of huge property man, who is apt to make mistakes with the accessories. ~Anita Vivanti Chartres (1866–1942), The Hunt for Happiness, 1896
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~Ralph Richardson, unverified
What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out. ~Alfred Hitchcock
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarré, as quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth — And By Far the Most Recent — 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1990
As a child I was taught that it was bad manners to draw attention to yourself and make a spectacle of yourself. I then went on to make a rather nice living doing just that... I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly gives millions a respite from our so violent world. ~Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)
I like the play that does not end. The play whose last act is a beginning. ~Horace Traubel (1858–1919), "Play things xxxviii," review of Minnie Maddern Fiske's Leah Kleshna, in The Conservator, March 1905
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. ~Dave Barry,
[It] is a good story before the actors take it. It becomes a better story as the actors pass it along. ~Horace Traubel (1858–1919), "Play things xxxviii," about Minnie Maddern Fiske's Leah Kleshna, in The Conservator, 1905
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough. ~Louis de Bernières, unverified
Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture. ~Author unknown
Dance until your feet hurt. Sing until your lungs hurt. Act until you're William Hurt. ~"Phil's-osophy" by Phil Dunphy (Christopher Lloyd, Steven Levitan, and Dan O'Shannon, Modern Family, "Schooled," original airdate 2012 Oct 10)
Horror films don't create fear. They release it. ~Wes Craven
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.... Grief and rage—you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die.... It is a theater of sacrifice... ~Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, 2006
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Rated G is nobody gets the girl. PG is the good guy gets the girl. R is the bad guy gets the girl. XXX is everybody gets the girl. ~Author unknown
An X-rated movie is an underdeveloped plot with an overdeveloped cast. ~Robert Orben, 2100 Laughs For All Occasions, 1983
There's no thief like a bad movie. ~Sam Ewing, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, 2001
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