Theater Quotes · Page 40

I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.

— Laurence Fishburne

Well, theater is kind of my life blood. Not kind of - it is my life blood.

— Christopher Jackson

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

— Natalie Zea

I love being on stage. I went into theater at five. I realized I really had something here.

— Madelaine Petsch

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater…

— Adam Baldwin

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

— Jason Reitman

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

— Marina Abramovic

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here…

— Mary Tyler Moore

You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything.…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience…

— Julia Bacha

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay…

— Joanne Woodward

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around…

— Larry Wall

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

— Danielle Brooks

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can…

— Drew Carey

What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may…

— Amos Oz

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable…

— Philip Roth

My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and…

— Kit Harington

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because…

— Antonio Banderas

Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King…

— Christopher Plummer

When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of…

— Anthony McCarten

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have…

— Minnie Driver

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come…

— Tina Fey

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

— Kristen Stewart

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

— Bob the Drag Queen

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

— Morgan Freeman

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

— Tom Stoppard

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

— Ethel Barrymore

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

— Manoj Bajpayee

“The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful”

— Ben Platt

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

— Alia Shawkat

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

— Lena Olin

“Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.”

— Michelle Knudsen

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

— Courtney B. Vance

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

— Patricia Heaton

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie…

— Lucy Fisher

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

— Bill Pullman