Theater Quotes · Page 34

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

— Harland Williams

I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

— Paul Wesley

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

— John Lithgow

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

— Robin Meyers

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

“You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.”

— Rebecca Murphy

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of…

— Sterling K. Brown

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I…

— Audra McDonald

Stage is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think…

— Gabrielle Carteris

“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a…

— S.M. Stevens

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

— Wendell Pierce

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,…

— Isadora Duncan

In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out…

— Jane Lynch

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it…

— Condola Rashad

In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet…

— Jeffrey Skilling

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea…

— Meghan Markle

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film,…

— Susan Sarandon

Cinema and theater - it's apples and oranges. You can't really beat movies. Yeah, when you're on an Oliver Stone set everybody…

— John Buffalo Mailer

When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I…

— Tyne Daly

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.'…

— Billy Porter

There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are…

— Arthur Miller

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

— Marlo Thomas

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

— Katie Finneran

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want…

— Aaron Tveit

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

— Shanola Hampton

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

— Harold Clurman

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

— Amanda Righetti

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos

When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to…

— Tony Todd

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

— Kate Fleetwood

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

— Juliet Mills

That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

— Adam Driver