Theater Quotes · Page 37

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

— Robert MacNeil

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

— Dennis Christopher

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

— Shirley Knight

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

— Charlie Plummer

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

— Gavin Creel

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

— Joe Elliott

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

— Condola Rashad

I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater…

— Michael Musto

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly…

— Sam Mendes

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon,…

— Martin Filler

I was a theater kid in high school, but I also went to parties. Usually in movies, there's the jock and the…

— Molly Gordon

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that…

— Jean Kerr

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie…

— Lenny Bruce

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how…

— Campbell Scott

You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling.…

— George Lucas

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in…

— Victor Garber

Now, as far as monitoring is concerned, what my point is, we need to make sure that any place - I don't…

— Benjamin Carson

“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community…

— Roland Barthes

I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths…

— George Saunders

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have.…

— Kim Hyesoon

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

— Laura Marano

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

— Roy H. Williams

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

— Alicia Keys

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

— Anne Archer

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

— Robert Wilson

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I'm a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.

— Jennifer Holliday

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

— Eartha Kitt

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

— A. R. Ammons

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

— Christy Mathewson

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

— Michael Caine

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

— Sam Rockwell

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

— Les Claypool

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

— Marcia Gay Harden