Theater Quotes · Page 30

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

— James Lipton

I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.

— Billy Eichner

That's what theater does, right? You all become this little family.

— Molly Gordon

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director…

— Greta Gerwig

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

— Jacki Weaver

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

— Debra Messing

My whole life, not just in my professional career but in community theater, I played the supporting role.

— Beanie Feldstein

With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension…

— Sonia Rykiel

I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love…

— Annette Bening

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be.…

— Logan Lerman

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film,…

— Adam Driver

People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater.…

— Ricky Martin

“Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.”

— Viola Spolin

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's…

— Dylan O'Brien

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find…

— Shoshannah Stern

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in…

— John Zorn

I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so…

— Julianna Margulies

I think that people want to go to the movies and watch shows on TV or in theaters that make them feel…

— Brittany Snow

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and…

— James Wolcott

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up,…

— Allison Mack

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a…

— Dan Glickman

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

— Bellamy Young

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

— Carrie Coon

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

— Patrick Macnee

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!

— The Miz

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

— Jake Johnson

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

— Mario Van Peebles

I'd love to shoot some of these bigger movies as they come, and I'll go back to theater at some point again.

— Jacob Zachar

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

— Cate Blanchett

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future…

— Laurie Metcalf

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I…

— Tyler Hilton

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli