Theater Quotes · Page 25

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

— Marisa Tomei

Theater programs in colleges seemed designed to make gay people act straight.

— Cole Escola

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

— Jane Krakowski

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

— Viola Davis

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

— George C. Wolfe

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

— Lauren Worsham

I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.

— Ana Layevska

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

— Anonymous

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was…

— Harold Prince

When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my…

— Nina Arianda

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor…

— Robert Knepper

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about…

— Harold Prince

I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.

— Jeff Perry

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who…

— Glenn Close

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale…

— Jim Gaffigan

I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air…

— Steve Hely

The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,…

— Robert Kazinsky

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there…

— Sean O'Casey

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill…

— Hugh Jackman

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend…

— Tom Hiddleston

I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential…

— Alex O'Loughlin

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be…

— Vanessa Kirby

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All…

— Ray Bradbury

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

— Ann Dowd

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

— Ben Fountain

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a…

— Martha Graham

I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

— Charlie Kaufman

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

— Patti LuPone

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

— Kevin Spacey

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

— Christian Louboutin

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

— Mason Cooley

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the…

— Piper Perabo

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

— Liana Liberato

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

— Connie Britton

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

— Philip Baker Hall

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like…

— Jillian Bach

I'll always go back to the theater. It's fulfilling and there's an immediacy to it.

— Gillian Jacobs