Theater Quotes · Page 28

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

— Orson Welles

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

— Ari Graynor

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

— Christine and the Queens

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

— Julian Ovenden

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

— Wayne Knight

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

— Mandy Patinkin

You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.

— Ann Reinking

“The theater was empty: nobody had come. Sometimes these things happen, and nobody can say why. From ""Amandina".”

— Sergio Ruzzier

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the…

— Haile Gerima

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to…

— Adam Driver

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great…

— Lewis Black

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option -…

— Reed Hastings

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle…

— Nile Rodgers

When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman,…

— Emily Ratajkowski

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things.…

— Harold Prince

When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

“So theater, huh? Not sure I saw that one coming either.” “Why?” My cheeks are warm, but I keep in front of…

— Kristin Rae

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you…

— Gaten Matarazzo

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people…

— Clive Owen

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the…

— Charlotte Rae

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience…

— David Alan Basche

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

— Damian Lewis

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

— Suzanne Brockmann

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

— Rene Auberjonois

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

— Katee Sackhoff

I love to go to the theater and watch movies when I have a chance.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New…

— Christopher Denham

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

— Elizabeth Olsen

The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

— Ethan Hawke

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

— Loni Anderson

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I grew up in theater, so I'm all about the process and I love having a process.

— Jerrika Hinton

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

— Rainn Wilson

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

— Annette Funicello

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

— Sarah Paulson