“Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.—” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
In the '80s, 'Dreamgirls' was our 'Hamilton.' It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater. — Angela Robinson Copy Share Image
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn. — Dan Glickman Copy Share Image
I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will. — John Webster Copy Share Image
What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's… — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders Copy Share Image
Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short,… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies,… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The fact is that viewers are getting used to watching media on a variety of platforms. Trailers look good on iPhones. Big-screen… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the… — Kevin McHale Copy Share Image
I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to… — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child. — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out… — Peter Cincotti Copy Share Image
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part! — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man. — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films. — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now. — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. — Vincent Schiavelli Copy Share Image
As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood? — Maggie Siff Copy Share Image
The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill — Proverb Copy Share Image
I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for. — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image