Theater Quotes · Page 43

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

— Ivan Reitman

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

— Brian Cox

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

— Tallulah Bankhead

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.

— Marianne Elliott

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

— Scott Speedman

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

— Mary-Louise Parker

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business.…

— Tom Berenger

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which…

— Jamie Blackley

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our…

— Tracy Letts

“Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if…

— Jake Vander Ark

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and…

— Cornelia Funke

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater…

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are…

— Yael Stone

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly.…

— James Randi

Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice…

— Jake Epstein

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago…

— Michael Mann

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a…

— Olesya Rulin

You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what…

— Rutger Hauer

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite,…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a…

— Betty Buckley

I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior…

— Wes Brown

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

— Woody Allen

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

— Arthur Miller

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

— Tcheky Karyo

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

— Oliver Stone

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

— Casey Affleck

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

— James Marsters

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

— Fiona Shaw

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

— Anonymous

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

When I go into a theater, I'm very excited to turn off my phone. But then, of course, I get anxiety.

— Phillipa Soo

I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

— LaTanya Richardson