I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the…

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a…

— Phoebe Fox

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

— Marlo Thomas

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

— William Hurt

'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who…

— Tracy Letts

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

“Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's…

— Mac Wellman

I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked…

— Donald Sutherland

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

My roots are in theater.

— Emma Corrin

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

— Ben Affleck

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you…

— Amy Landecker

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC…

— Aida Turturro