Quotes About Theater And Politics

#1. You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Michael Bloomberg

#2. Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

Steve Fowler

#3. The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end ... we are much more strategic about how we source now.

Jason Kennedy

#4. I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Self-confidence is the greatest strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Emma Goldman

#7. You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Gary Hopkins

#8. One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#9. I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

Roger Ailes

#10. I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

River Phoenix

#11. They talked about the White Album on the way to school, but just as an excuse to stare at each other's mouths. You'd think they were lip-reading.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. In Elizabethan England or classical Athens ... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Diane Paulus

#13. ...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.

Neal Gabler

#14. Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me

Harvey Milk

#15. Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

#16. If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

Tom Shadyac

#17. By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

Lisa Edelstein

#18. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation.

Susan Cain

#19. Audiences can get their politics elsewhere. They go to the theater to forget.

Jack Warner

#20. It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Alexandre Aja

#21. It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.

Hugh Howey

#22. While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

Andrew Niccol

#23. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.

Marge Piercy

#24. Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

#25. In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

David Tang

#26. Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

Myron Uhlberg