Theater Quotes · Page 45

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.

— Judd Nelson

“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”

— Abbie Hoffman

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

— James Corden

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

— Maurice Willson Disher

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

— Charley Pride

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

— Hermann Goring

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

— Oliver Stone

I'm interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience…

— Alvin Ailey

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater…

— Neil Tennant

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in…

— Omar Epps

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned…

— Tablo

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

— Michael Arad

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided…

— Scott Bakula

The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect…

— Sarah Siddons

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself…

— Jonathan Miller

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are…

— Stephen King

“We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it is good-and…

— Michel Foucault

“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time…

— Anne Bogart

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship…

— Max von Sydow

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies…

— Isabelle Huppert

Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that…

— Reggie Lee

I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They…

— Kiefer Sutherland

You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something

— Kenneth Haigh

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

— Martha Plimpton

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

— Jane Lynch

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

— Lana Parrilla

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

— Mark O'Donnell

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

— Tom Stoppard

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

— Eve Ensler

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

— Rhetta Hughes

The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

— Zach Gilford

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

— Brenda Blethyn

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

— Charlotte Caffey

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

— Emily Ratajkowski

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

— Olivia Wilde

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

— Brian K. Vaughan