Theater Quotes · Page 24

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

— David Bryan

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with…

— Julie Taymor

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

— Christina Hendricks

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the…

— Tom Hanks

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

— Jessica Hagedorn

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

— Jason Gann

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

— Emma Watson

“The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind…

— Stewart Stafford

To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality…

— Andrea Navedo

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings,…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

— John Petrucci

I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And…

— Norm MacDonald

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by…

— James Earl Jones

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm…

— Sara Bareilles

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the…

— David Lynch

I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in…

— Ed O'Neill

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are…

— Gus Van Sant

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When…

— Rebel Wilson

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity…

— Nick Offerman

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…

— Laurence Sterne

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of…

— Darren Criss

Doing a play is very different from doing films or TV. In theatre, the medium lends itself to allowing you to have…

— Krysten Ritter

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

— Luke Kirby

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

— Jane Krakowski

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

— Jack Lemmon

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

— Clarice Taylor

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

— Zachary Quinto

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

— Al Pacino

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

— Lara Pulver

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans.”

— Rebecca Wells

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

— Alvin Ailey

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless

— Steve Allen

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

— Terry Semel

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

— Dana Brunetti

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

— Agnes Moorehead

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

— Ansel Elgort

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino