Theater Quotes · Page 27

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

— Samuel Johnson

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

— Melanie Laurent

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

— Adrianne Palicki

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

— David Friedman

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

— Roma Downey

Some people, they have the energy and projection that is good for theater. I don't have that.

— Mark Ivanir

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

— Charles Durning

Especially, for me, being a theater actor in New York - this is no snub, but I'm not famous.

— Mike Faist

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought…

— Ludivine Sagnier

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that…

— Shane Carruth

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at…

— Beverly Sills

Most of our occupations are low comedy… We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of…

— Michel de Montaigne

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater…

— Gloria Stuart

My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a…

— Bill Pullman

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely…

— Lucien Bourjeily

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,…

— Augusten Burroughs

I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown…

— Natasha Tsakos

I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love…

— Casey Neistat

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago…

— Denis O'Hare

My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a…

— Jose Parla

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television…

— Kenneth Branagh

There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I…

— Frank Wildhorn

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this…

— Alan Tudyk

I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.

— Megan Hilty

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

— Mike Nichols

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

— Phillipa Soo

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

— Megan Mullally

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

— Laurie Metcalf

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

— Taylor Schilling

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

— Mary Martin

That awkward moment when you finish a medium popcorn by the opening credits at the movie theater.

— Anonymous

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

— Harvey Milk

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

— Francois Truffaut

If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then…

— Jaime Camil

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

— Nick Offerman

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

— Jennifer Ehle