Theater Quotes · Page 31

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

— Milla Jovovich

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

— John Rhys-Davies

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

— Anonymous

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

— Cailee Spaeny

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

— Allison Williams

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

— Trevor Nunn

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my…

— William Moseley

The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments…

— Alexander Vassiliev

I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it…

— William Jackson Harper

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by…

— Jeremy Irons

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies…

— Charles Kimbrough

Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and…

— J. August Richards

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it…

— Peter Krause

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's…

— Audra McDonald

Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure…

— James Berardinelli

I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did…

— Pierce Brosnan

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone…

— Brian J. Smith

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great…

— Denis Leary

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the…

— Sidney Lumet

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there…

— Garry Hynes

I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to…

— Kristen Connolly

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

— Peter Hermann

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

— David Bryan

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

— Tony Kushner

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

— Tony Kushner

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

— Alton Brown

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

— Tom Irwin

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

— Martha Plimpton

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

— Kate Winslet

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

— Ben Vereen

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

— Bill Tilden