Theater Quotes · Page 42

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

— Dave Malloy

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall…

— Scoot McNairy

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

— Anna Camp

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

— Elayne Boosler

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

— Joel Hodgson

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

— Roger Rees

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

— Fiona Shaw

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life…

— George Jean Nathan

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in…

— Kate Burton

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get…

— Bill Burr

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or…

— Stephen Chbosky

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots…

— Val Kilmer

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything.…

— Kimiko Glenn

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To…

— Sarita Choudhury

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference.…

— Alan Rickman

In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because…

— Jonathan Groff

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing…

— Henry Hazlitt

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to…

— Faith Prince

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth…

— Ilan Stavans

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and…

— Tony Kushner

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very…

— Annie Baker

The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes…

— Nick Blaemire

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff…

— Peter Scolari

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

— Annie Parisse

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

— Brendan Sexton III

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

— Moss Hart

I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

— James Lapine

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

— Janine Turner

I find a lot of joy from legitimate theater. But Jinkx is my passion project.

— Jinkx Monsoon

“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

— George S. Kaufman

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater…

— Demian Bichir

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

— Zachary Levi

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

— Thomas Middleditch

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

— Mason Cooley

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.

— Michael Lomenda

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

— Christopher Guest