Theater Quotes

Everything is theater.

— Fernando Pessoa

“life is like theater”

— William Shakespeare

I'd like to do some theater.

— Mike Connors

Play out the play ...

— William Shakespeare

All theater is dance.

— Robert Wilson

My love is the theater.

— Tony Todd

I love the theater of me.

— Michael Moriarty

My roots are in theater.

— Emma Corrin

My first wife was a theater person.

— Ahmet Ertegun

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.

— Andy Warhol

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

— Melissa Benoist

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

— Marina Abramovic

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

— Robert Lepage

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

— Tom Stoppard

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.

— Jason Robards

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

— Taye Diggs

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

— James Broughton

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on…

— Dashiell Hammett

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

— Werner Herzog

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

— Meital Dohan

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

— Mike Colter

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater…

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and…

— Cornelia Funke

“Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if…

— Jake Vander Ark

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our…

— Tracy Letts

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which…

— Jamie Blackley

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business.…

— Tom Berenger

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference.…

— Alan Rickman

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything.…

— Kimiko Glenn

“The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, the commonplace dress, of reason.…

— Edward Bond

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled…

— Britt Robertson

There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are…

— Arthur Miller

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.'…

— Billy Porter

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I…

— Tyne Daly

Cinema and theater - it's apples and oranges. You can't really beat movies. Yeah, when you're on an Oliver Stone set everybody…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film,…

— Susan Sarandon