Theater Quotes · Page 48

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night…

— Amy Sedaris

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

— Jill Clayburgh

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

“Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.”

— Janet Fitch

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

— Katharine Cornell

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to…

— Vanessa Kirby

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay,…

— Edna Ferber

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in…

— Christopher Walken

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like…

— Nonso Anozie

In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java,…

— Michelle Stuart

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school…

— Christine Taylor

“We are all actors playing different roles in different phases of life. But we must try to play each role to perfection!”

— Avijeet Das

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life…

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it…

— Viola Davis

I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more…

— Anthony Hopkins

A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and…

— Louis C. K

I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the…

— Paul Laffoley

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it…

— Peter Dinklage

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8…

— Bette Midler

I hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think…

— Harry Treadaway

I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my…

— Romulus Linney

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

— Cheyenne Jackson

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

— Joel Grey

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

— James Berardinelli

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

— Ben Platt

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

— Christopher Lee

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

— Carol Kane

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement…

— Yolanda Adams

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

— Jean Kerr

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

— Sonia Braga

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

— Haley Joel Osment

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

— Lauren Worsham

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

— Susan Sontag

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

— E. G. Marshall

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

— Sonia Braga

I always wanted to be an actor. My first professional job was at 19, working in New York theater.

— Peter Scolari