Theater Quotes · Page 19

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

— Robert Holman

I was very much a character actress. But I've never stopped doing theater.

— Mariette Hartley

My training was in theater, and I was asked to be a journalist.

— Mariette Hartley

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having…

— John Noble

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

— Michael Gambon

“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”

— Constantin S Stanislavski

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

— Ray Bradbury

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

— Daveed Diggs

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my…

— Tatiana Maslany

The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience,…

— Carol Kane

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are…

— Mark Rydell

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job…

— Kieran Bew

To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in,…

— Marti Noxon

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays.…

— Daphne Zuniga

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its…

— Marilyn Manson

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity,…

— Trevor Nunn

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy,…

— John Lithgow

It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any…

— Jay Baruchel

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him…

— Peter O'Toole

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and…

— Stephen Karam

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I…

— Bridget Regan

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,…

— Norman Mailer

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and…

— Edward Bond

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

— Tim Robbins

My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

— Robert Greene

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch…

— Darren Aronofsky

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

— John Wells

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

— Paul Walter Hauser

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

— Cate Blanchett

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

— Anurag Kashyap

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

— Reggie Watts

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

— Lily Rabe

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

— Augusto Boal

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

— Stephanie Mills

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

— Brianna Brown

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

— Mos Def

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

— Mae West

A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.

— Mike Portnoy