Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I think I got into acting because I kind of had not much else to do! I guess I was kind of… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way.… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Because I come from a background in theater and doing little fringe plays, and wondering if 20 people would come to see… — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to… — Heather Hemmens Copy Share Image
It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there,… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had… — Fiona Gubelmann Copy Share Image
And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God… — Jimmy Pardo Copy Share Image
I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical… — Heather Dubrow Copy Share Image
“To quote a Shakespearean cliché, repeated to death because it is so stubbornly true: “All the world’s a stage.” Work is theater.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me.… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
