Theater Quotes · Page 50

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

— Dave Barry

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

— Joan Allen

“Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.”

— Mary Chase

The stock company, as I knew it is dead. Road companies are few and far between. Still the theater must survive.

— Van Heflin

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw

Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.

— Corey Stoll

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

— Courtney Love

I didn't think the worlds of theater and basketball intersected. I thought the Venn diagram would be one person: me. As it…

— Daryl Morey

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of…

— Sade Adu

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to…

— Cynthia Nixon

Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was…

— Dorian Missick

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical…

— Misty Copeland

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that…

— Tony Kushner

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming…

— Michael Imperioli

My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And…

— Sandra Bullock

For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get…

— Morgan Saylor

A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the…

— Amanda Ripley

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down…

— Roger Ebert

I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv…

— Gillian Jacobs

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in…

— Sarah Butler

To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get…

— Ali Suliman

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face…

— Thornton Wilder

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

— Maddie Hasson

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

— Marc Platt

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

— Darren Criss

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

— Madonna Ciccone

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

— Joe Rogan

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

— Marian Seldes

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who…

— Curtis Hanson

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

— Harold Prince

I was a theatre brat, growing up. I have loved theater, performing, as far back as I can remember.

— Billy Zane

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

— Marcello Mastroianni

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

— Rebecca Hall

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

— Megan Hilty

Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

— James Spader