Theater Quotes · Page 38

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

— Ryan Eggold

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

— Robert Gossett

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

— Ruth Wilson

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I made my living as a theater actor before I got my record deal.

— Lari White

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

— Zac Efron

Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

— John Tiffany

I would love to write something that I'm not in and just be in a rehearsal room as a writer. But I…

— Cole Escola

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that…

— John Madden

With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when…

— Adam Driver

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on…

— David Anders

“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody…

— Susan Cooper

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut…

— Cab Calloway

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more…

— Beau Willimon

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I…

— Curtis Armstrong

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then…

— Alan Rickman

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in…

— Edward Albee

I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of…

— Jennifer Grant

You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level…

— Mark Ronson

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as…

— Jorma Taccone

What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,…

— Michael Chekhov

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in…

— Peter Stone

The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole…

— Gary Busey

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot.…

— Andrea Riseborough

I never wanted to be a wrestler, I wanted to get into musical theater. I always wanted to be on Broadway.

— Tessa Blanchard

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of…

— Pierce Brosnan

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

— Will Rogers

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

— Baz Luhrmann

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

— Diego Luna

When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.

— Charlie McDowell

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

— Minnie Driver

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

— Harvey Fierstein

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

— Viola Spolin

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on…

— David Harbour

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

— Patrick Wilson

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

— Julie Halston

“If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.”

— Buck Bannister