Theater Quotes · Page 33

“The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful”

— Ben Platt

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

— Alia Shawkat

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

— Courtney B. Vance

“Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.”

— Michelle Knudsen

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

— Harold Prince

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

— Jim Parsons

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

— Zosia Mamet

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided…

— Elizabeth Berkley

I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them…

— Luke Evans

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards…

— Uzo Aduba

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened…

— John Hughes

I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like…

— Tracie Thoms

I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and…

— Lucinda Coxon

“Psihanalistul devine regizorul unui teatru privat - in loc sa fie inginerul sau mecanicul care monteaza unitati de productie, care se lupta…

— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

I had done lots of theater and I really wanted to do screen work. I said to my agent, "Look, I really…

— Gwendoline Christie

The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a…

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm studying theater and media. I don't really know why I took media, because I'm so useless with technology, though it's fun.…

— Tom Holland

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed…

— Bette Davis

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I…

— Tatiana Maslany

I only did theater in high school, and I loved it so much; yeah, I must tell you I loved being on…

— Kristin Kreuk

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's…

— Dan Futterman

Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes…

— Renata Adler

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I…

— Sam Rockwell

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

— Bill Pullman

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie…

— Lucy Fisher

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

— Patricia Heaton

I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.

— Laurence Fishburne

I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I…

— Richard Linklater

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an…

— Christine and the Queens

In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

— Frances McDormand

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

— Carice van Houten

Well, theater is kind of my life blood. Not kind of - it is my life blood.

— Christopher Jackson

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

— Marina Abramovic

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

— Kristen Stewart

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

— Jason Reitman