Theater Quotes
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Theater Quotes & Sayings
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
— Laura San Giacomo
I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.
— Thomas Ian Griffith
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
— Rafael Vinoly
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
— Misty Copeland
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
— Marc Chagall
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
— Carl Weathers
In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing.
— Cindy Marcus
My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
— Sam Rockwell
There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
— Jeffrey Donovan
Theater has been my way of learning about everything.
— Seth Numrich
When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
— Asghar Farhadi
I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community.
— Katherine McNamara
I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
— Indira Varma
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
— Sara Paxton
Theater is hard.
— Paul Dano
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.
— Adam Rapp
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom
— Desson Thomson
When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.
— Charles Nelson Reilly
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
— Michael Caine
You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul. (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater)
— Kristen Britain
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
— William Ralph Inge
I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it.
— Rosanna Pansino
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
— Harvey Fierstein
The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
— Ben Vereen
Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
— Valerie Azlynn
Everything in life is theater.
— Margo Jones
In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
— BD Wong
I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
— Scott Speedman
The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.
— Marina Abramovic
I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.
— Charlie Day
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.
— Sherry Stringfield
The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
— Susan Sontag
You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.
— Stephanie Zimbalist
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
— Sophia Loren
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
— William Monahan
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.
— Peter Hall
Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
— Zac Efron
I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
— Wes Craven
I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again.
— Michael Frayn
I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
— Tatyana Ali
There was something strangely naked about it, like we were on a stage set, playing our parts to an audience of eyes out there in the wood.
— Ruth Ware
Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
— Jason Alexander
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.
— Tim Daly
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
— Dana Brunetti
For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
— Brian Baumgartner
One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.
— Rob McClure
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
— Eve Ensler
life is like theater
— William Shakespeare
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.
— David Anders
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
— Vincent H. O'Neil
The weary guests are asked to leave the warmth of the all-night theater, having slept on pictures others only dream on.
— Tony Banks
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.
— Rob Lowe
The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
— Gavin O'Connor
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.
— Carrie Brownstein
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
— Harold Prince
I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
— Adam Driver
I'm afraid to do theater now.
— John Corbett
I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere ... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
— Alona Tal
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
— Christian Louboutin
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
— David Friedman
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
— William Moseley
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
— Alan Rickman
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
— Tracy Letts
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
— Roman Polanski
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
— Asghar Farhadi
I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.
— Kurt Fuller
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
— Franz Grillparzer
I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.
— Rob McClure
In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.
— Lena Olin
For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
— Kate Burton
Exit, pursued by a bear.
— William Shakespeare
I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.
— Karen Allen
I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.
— Thomas Middleditch
I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.
— Brenda Blethyn
Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.
— Peter Hermann