Theater Quotes · Page 39

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

— Katharine Hepburn

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

— Hyman Taubman

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

— Joseph Gatt

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

— Linden Ashby

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

— Cate Blanchett

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart,

— Phylicia Rashad

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a…

— Lisa Lucas

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

— Nancy Marchand

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater.…

— Stephen Sondheim

“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I…

— Mac Wellman

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the…

— Harold Prince

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or…

— Carol Burnett

Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others.…

— Julie Taymor

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at…

— Ariana Grande

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will…

— Marc Chagall

I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,'…

— Lauren Worsham

'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the…

— Brad Hall

I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a…

— Anonymous

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to…

— David Small

In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to…

— LaTanya Richardson

In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways,…

— Nick Blaemire

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I…

— Linda Hunt

“I soon realized that one of the most important things to find while working in theater was someone to giggle with. To…

— Elaine Dundy

Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

— Bethany Joy Galeotti

My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.

— Michael Schultz

In high school I had done a little theater. It was a place to meet girls.

— Robert Beltran

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

— Robert Wilson

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

— Eddie Cahill

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

— Suzanne Farrell

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to…

— John Cameron Mitchell

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

— James Lapine

I like to think of performance-wear just like theater: we're making a character come to life each night.

— Doechii

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

— Richard Armitage

The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.

— Rich Hall

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

— Adrianne Palicki

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

— Carice van Houten

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

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