Jean Smart Quotes

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

The pause is a part of the walk.

Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.

'Jersey' is a very strong story and is driven by emotions.

One of the functions of drama is to teach.

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it.

Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.