Theater Quotes · Page 49

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

— Juno Temple

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

— George Santayana

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.

— George C. Wolfe

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

— Luchino Visconti

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

— Jeffrey Donovan

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

— Shirley Knight

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

— Tom Cullen

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

— William Hurt

I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for…

— Angela Lansbury

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

— Sara Canning

I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living…

— Seth Rogen

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The…

— Frank Wildhorn

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the…

— Gillian Anderson

Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel…

— Cote de Pablo

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to…

— Alexander Koch

The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The…

— Rufus Sewell

I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of…

— Julio Cortazar

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're…

— Hugh Jackman

Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a…

— Michael Madsen

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that…

— Joe Mantello

Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with…

— Jason Blum

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together...…

— Keira Knightley

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

— Michael Moriarty

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

— Antonin Artaud

As far as theater goes, Sarah DeLappe's 'The Wolves' is one of my favorite things I've ever seen.

— Beanie Feldstein

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

— Alan Rickman

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

— August Wilson

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

— Raymond Cruz

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

— Allison Janney

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

— Demian Bichir

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

— Betty Gilpin

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

— Hill Harper

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

— George Jean Nathan

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

— Atom Egoyan

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

— Tommy Chong

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

— Beth Broderick