Howard Rheingold Quotes

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus is really important in Greek drama and I loved the idea of including that.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,” Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?” Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of course,” Harriet replied. “Every good play has an evil queen.” Frances actually raised her hand. “And a un—” “Don’t say it,” Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.