Theater Quotes · Page 101

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college,…

— Annie Baker

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well,…

— Hank Azaria

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar…

— Mike Nichols

The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that…

— Peter Brook

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to…

— Jensen Ackles

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor.…

— Pam Grier

I saw my sister in this production of 'Whistle Down the Wind' - my sister was a really big theater kid -…

— Josie Totah

I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater.…

— Linden Ashby

I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open.…

— Kathryn Hahn

It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and…

— Bruce Catton

When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the…

— Rex Harrison

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did…

— Emile Chartier

If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there…

— Joan Rivers

What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them…

— Denzel Washington

We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland,…

— Audrey Niffenegger

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City…

— Mike Birbiglia

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few…

— Scott Simon

I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living…

— Jon Bernthal

My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was…

— Jeremy Irvine

I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I…

— Gerald Stern

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the…

— Hans Zimmer

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an…

— Michael Moriarty

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of…

— Bob Costas

Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a…

— Josh Groban

I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary…

— Holland Roden

I love theater: I can do shows that are completely different from one another. Altar Boyz had heavy dance moves, but also…

— Andy Karl

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

— Amy Landecker

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower…

— Ray Bradbury

I love the rehearsal, as long as it's not over-rehearsed. I love it when the actors can rehearse until we feel really…

— Brad Leland

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I…

— Kiefer Sutherland

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice…

— Diane Ackerman

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the…

— Joseph Cornell

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran…

— Ben Hecht

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not…

— Noomi Rapace

There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money…

— Amanda Palmer

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you…

— Kunal Nayyar

I really think 'Spring Awakening' is unlike any other show. At the end of the day, I hope people are moved by…

— Jake Epstein

When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the…

— Rex Harrison

Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today…

— Adolf Hitler