Asghar Farhadi Quotes

Everything is theater.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.