Theater Quotes · Page 21

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

— Joel Grey

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

— Vik Sahay

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

— Katharine Cornell

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

“Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.”

— Janet Fitch

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

— Jill Clayburgh

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers…

— Raymond Cruz

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand…

— Billy Gardell

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will…

— Gillian Jacobs

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical…

— Alex Ebert

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous…

— Susan Sontag

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a…

— Beau Willimon

It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living -…

— Orson Bean

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How…

— Mike Nichols

Growing up in Canada, none of my family were performers or anything like that, but I was terrible at hockey, so they…

— Eric Johnson

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and…

— Paulo Coelho

I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you…

— Jill Scott

The director, Moisés Kaufman, just received the national medal of the arts from President [Barack] Obama . He wrote and directed The…

— Patrick Heusinger

My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I…

— Tom Lenk

I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day…

— Maya Angelou

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the…

— Michael Haneke

Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all…

— Laura Linney

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

— Cheyenne Jackson

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

— Joel Grey

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

— Arthur Miller

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

— Miranda Cosgrove

“I’m sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You’ve just got to do it all.”

— Michael Sokolove

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

— Deirdre Lovejoy

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night…

— Amy Sedaris

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

— William Mapother

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

— Patrick Wilson

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

— Jean Kerr

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

— Sonia Braga

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

— Carol Kane

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement…

— Yolanda Adams

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

— Susan Sontag