Theater Quotes · Page 23

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

— Bill Tilden

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

— Kate Winslet

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

— Ben Vereen

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

— John Goodwin

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by…

— Jeremy Irons

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I…

— William Gibson

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my…

— William Moseley

The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments…

— Alexander Vassiliev

I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it…

— William Jackson Harper

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead,…

— Kathy Baker

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do…

— Frank Rich

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea…

— Meghan Markle

There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped…

— Tavi Gevinson

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way…

— Joe Russo

If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the…

— Jay Mohr

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles.…

— Stephen Sondheim

At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with…

— Luigi Russolo

My dad worked at a mechanical factory for 35 years. I grew up in Union City, NJ. My mother is a social…

— Bobby Cannavale

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because…

— Edward Albee

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

— John Sculley

I don't want to do little theater or go on the road with a show.

— Fred MacMurray

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

— Henry David Thoreau

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

— Kenneth Tynan

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

— Anonymous

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

— Milla Jovovich

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

— John Rhys-Davies

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

— Cailee Spaeny

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

— Trevor Nunn

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

— Allison Williams

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

— Tony Kushner

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

— Tony Kushner

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

— Peter Hermann