Theater Quotes · Page 32

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

— David Hasselhoff

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

— Ian McShane

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

— Misty Copeland

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a…

— David Geffen

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

— Ray Bradbury

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as…

— Patrick J. Adams

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

— Clarke Peters

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical…

— Melissa Bean

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth.…

— Ian Mckellen

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come…

— Cillian Murphy

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they…

— Matt Bomer

I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from…

— Cristela Alonzo

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some…

— Katie Lowes

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career,…

— Al Pacino

What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and…

— Justin Simien

I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't…

— Dustin Hoffman

I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced,…

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called…

— Vanessa Bayer

Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid,…

— Alonso Duralde

Students can't leave their lives at the door when they come to school. They bring with them whatever is going on at…

— Renee Watson

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director…

— Erykah Badu

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent…

— Rachel Brosnahan

“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They…

— Michael J. Nelson

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

— August Wilson

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

— Chad Lowe

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

— Bobby Cannavale

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

— Barack Obama

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

— John Tiffany

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

— Emma Stone

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

— James Broughton

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

— Dianne Wiest

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

— Will Smith

When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.

— Mark Kurlansky

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

— Tom Stoppard

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

— Ethel Barrymore

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

— Lena Olin