Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They were just exciting people. And I knew that they were different when I would go see a friend or stay at someone else's house. It just wasn't as cool. So I always loved the theater, and that's where I started: at a theater up in Canada.

I remember seeing Janet McTeer in A Doll's House. My grandmother took me and we had seats in the very back row, but her performance was so powerful - it was very accessible. I felt like I was much closer than I was.

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?

As soon as I leave the world [of the show], I want to turn around and come back. That's how real it is. As soon as I leave the theater I want to wake up and come back the next day and do it all over again. It's that much fun.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.

Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the process rather than the result.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.