Theater Quotes · Page 20

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

— Harold Prince

I was a theatre brat, growing up. I have loved theater, performing, as far back as I can remember.

— Billy Zane

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who…

— Curtis Hanson

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

— Megan Hilty

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

— Marcello Mastroianni

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

— Rebecca Hall

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

— Rene Auberjonois

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible.…

— Graham Phillips

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater,…

— Diane Paulus

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what…

— Craig Brewer

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then…

— Jim Parsons

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department,…

— David Selby

Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York,…

— Erin Maya Darke

I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try…

— Malcolm McDowell

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I…

— Debbie Reynolds

What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well…

— Jane Roberts

“The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project,…

— Iris Murdoch

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the…

— Eleanora Duse

Obviously, when you're in theater, you have to be in character. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be…

— Matthew Lewis

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot…

— Jonny Weston

The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

— Julia Stiles

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge…

— Maggie Siff

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.

— Francis Chan

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

— Irwin Shaw

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

— Patti LuPone

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

— Chester Bennington

I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart…

— Jaime Camil

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

— Ken Curtis

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

— Chukwudi Iwuji

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

— Gene Simmons

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Andre Holland

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

— Gary Sinise

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

— Anne Heche