Theater Quotes · Page 41

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

— Harold Prince

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

— Zosia Mamet

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

— Jim Parsons

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I…

— Sam Rockwell

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater,…

— Denise Duhamel

Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see…

— Elizabeth Ashley

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but…

— Dan Savage

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the…

— Philippe Petit

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately…

— Aida Turturro

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as…

— Clive Owen

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want…

— Zac Efron

For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts…

— Alister E. McGrath

During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and…

— Ann Brashares

The thing is this: I've got an amazing career in England that couldn't possibly get much better. I do the best theater…

— Lesley Manville

My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the…

— Josh Cooke

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of…

— Linda Cardellini

The Globe is a missing monument. There's no existing example of a theater from Shakespeare's time. You have Roman theaters, Greek theaters,…

— Sam Wanamaker

I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen,…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And…

— Callie Khouri

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

— Demian Bichir

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

— Howard Rheingold

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

— Sam Mendes

In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.

— Jamey Sheridan

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

— Augusto Boal

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

— Paul Feig

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

— Jonathan Banks

Growing up, the dream was to be on Broadway. I always loved theater.

— Lauren Worsham

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

— Leslie Jordan

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

— Christian Camargo

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

— Kit Harington

I studied theater at UCLA and wrote plays during my time there.

— Mikey Day

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall

A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.

— Michael O'Keefe

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

— Andre Holland

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

— Elizabeth Olsen