Theater Quotes · Page 35

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

— Willem Dafoe

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

— Jonathan Pryce

I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out.

— Nia DaCosta

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

— Johnny Galecki

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

— Javier Bardem

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

— Richard Simmons

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in…

— Jerome Lawrence

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

— David Letterman

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it…

— Cory Michael Smith

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into…

— Raul Julia

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be…

— Liana Liberato

What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do…

— Meital Dohan

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I…

— Denzel Washington

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity.…

— Bill Pullman

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled…

— Britt Robertson

“The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, the commonplace dress, of reason.…

— Edward Bond

When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the…

— Viola Spolin

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia…

— Agnes Varda

“Quite simply, the Church is not a movie theater. It does not need a “silver screen” in order to be more relatable…

— Anonymous

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the…

— Linda Woolverton

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting…

— Michael Fassbender

We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

— Alfred Molina

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

— Michael Caine

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

— Angela Robinson

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.”

— Gaetano Pesche

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

— Jason Robards

I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

— Jason Earles

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

— Marina Abramovic

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

— Chita Rivera

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg