Focus Theatre Quotes

#1. Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Alan Rickman

#2. In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

James Carver

#3. The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

Judy Gold

#4. You can't have a better past.

Anonymous

#5. You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'

Dennis Christopher

#6. Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Willie Stargell

#8. World, O world, I follow my fancy, not yours!

Marty Rubin

#9. I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

Sarah Brightman

#10. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

Nora Ephron

#11. My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

Ishmael Reed

#12. When you train yourself to think positive, you tend to worry less and not let the worst get the best of you.

Jason Scotts

#13. Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth.

Bell Hooks

#14. Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.

Judith McNaught

#15. Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now ... Certainly I'll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through.

Bret Lott

#16. I don't appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for rest of their life.

Kiran Arshad

#17. Ever think about contract killing? Angela

Carmen DeSousa

#18. Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Marjane Satrapi

#19. Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

Sam Mendes

#20. In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#21. I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

Viggo Mortensen

#22. Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why? ...

Nick Gordon