Theater Quotes · Page 22

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

— Haley Joel Osment

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

— Lauren Worsham

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

— James Berardinelli

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

— Christopher Lee

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

— Ben Platt

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with…

— Sam Shepard

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

— Jane Krakowski

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

— Tom Hanks

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with…

— Lauren Bacall

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's…

— Joan Didion

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always…

— Milla Jovovich

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more…

— George Hickenlooper

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it…

— Frances McDormand

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an…

— Epicurus

When I saw 'Incendios,' it changed the way I looked at my life... and my family. It was very strong. I believe…

— Diego Luna

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back…

— Joan Chen

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and…

— Kim Cattrall

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so…

— Zac Efron

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up…

— Amy Irving

I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut…

— Max Irons

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that…

— Michel Foucault

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love…

— Alfred Molina

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra…

— Anna Kendrick

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me.…

— Aileen Quinn

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

— Jesse Eisenberg

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

— Denzel Washington

There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.

— Joel Edgerton

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

I really miss so much being at the theater and being able to do plays.

— Phil Dunster

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

— Stanley Tucci

The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for…

— Richard Cabral

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.

— Marc Platt

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

— Ethel Merman

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

— Spiro Kostof

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

— Richard Foreman

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

— Tom Irwin

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

— Martha Plimpton

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

— Alton Brown

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard