You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.
It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.
I did theatrical caricatures.
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life
Theatrical work means too much work or none.
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No. " It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were working with lower-level theatrical lights. In most cases, people were really respectful of that.
My mum was an actor until she started having children. I was the first child, so in a way I was the end of her acting career, which hopefully she's forgiven me for. She's still watches my show every week. It's funny because I didn't grow up in a household that felt like a theatrical household. My dad did a normal job and my mum had given up. But when I decided to try and do it - it wasn't the most alien concept.
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.
It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
My family is very theatrical.
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.