Theater Quotes · Page 26

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

— Matthew Morrison

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

— Adrienne Shelly

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with…

— Ben Kingsley

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It's a morning to midnight profession.

— Agnes Moorehead

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

— John Leguizamo

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

— Jerry Rubin

“Besides, you know how I love the theater, and let's face it-a wedding is like a big show followed by a cast…

— Jennifer Allison

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I…

— Louis Garrel

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of…

— Treat Williams

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on…

— Simon McBurney

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier…

— Patrick Stewart

'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day.…

— Lucy Fry

That's what I like about musical theater, is that it's very collaborative, not just with the writers, but with the director and…

— Stephen Schwartz

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks,…

— Zeljko Ivanek

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors…

— Yul Vazquez

I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater…

— Ishmael Reed

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I…

— Nina Arianda

I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I…

— Michael Che

Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,…

— Susan Sontag

Some of the things that happened at theater camp, you would tell somebody and they would never believe. But if you're a…

— Molly Gordon

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and…

— Jenna Elfman

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single…

— David Copperfield

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It…

— John Barth

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

— Diane Paulus

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

— Romany Malco

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.

— Brad Hall

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

— Gulzar

At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.

— George Washington

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

— Armand Assante

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.

— Tom Kitt

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

— Alicia Keys

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

— Vaclav Havel

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel…

— Mignon McLaughlin

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

— Justin Bartha

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

— Jim McKay

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

— Scott Bakula

I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.

— Robert Lepage

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

— Sam Tsui