Theater Quotes · Page 54

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie…

— Matthew Lillard

I grew up going to see my classmates in theater perform, always wanting to be a part of that because it felt…

— Melissa Barrera

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because…

— Norm MacDonald

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears -…

— Travis Knight

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to…

— Kerry Washington

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from…

— Christopher Reeve

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all…

— William Petersen

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside…

— Mare Winningham

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's…

— Joe Wright

I've always known that I wanted to be an actor. My family kind of was a theatrically inclined family. My father came…

— Peter Vack

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.…

— Haruki Murakami

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I spent a lot of my time, growing up, at the Beck Center. I'd be in plays there, and I'd get there…

— Rory O'Malley

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is…

— Samantha Bond

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you…

— Dave Abrams

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…

— Kelsey Grammer

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood.…

— Tony Goldwyn

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally…

— Jennifer Stone

I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than…

— Katie Leclerc

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you…

— David Lynch

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and…

— Douglas Booth

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

— Stephen Moyer

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement…

— George Santayana

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is…

— Thornton Wilder

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,…

— Tony Kushner

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of…

— Nicole Ari Parker

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being…

— Enrico Colantoni

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I…

— Fede Alvarez

There are all kinds of films being made but I feel watching a film in a theatre is quite a family experience…

— Kiku Sharda

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that…

— Trevor Nunn

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw…

— David Oyelowo

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee…

— Orson Welles

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to…

— Tom Stoppard

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but…

— Amanda Schull

I'm not sure that I want my life to consist of Hollywood franchises, to be honest. There are other types of work…

— Taron Egerton

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if…

— Jon Glaser

I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my…

— Madisen Beaty

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more…

— Athol Fugard