Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into… — Raul Julia Copy Share Image
What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be… — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior… — Wes Brown Copy Share Image
I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it is good-and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the… — Kevin McHale Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity.… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
Stage is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think… — Gabrielle Carteris Copy Share Image
“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a… — S.M. Stevens Copy Share Image
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on… — David Anders Copy Share Image
“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television. — Nancy Marchand Copy Share Image
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I… — Mac Wellman Copy Share Image
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