Theater Quotes · Page 104

I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once…

— Joe Taslim

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people…

— Stephen Daldry

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of…

— Judith Malina

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of…

— Bruce Springsteen

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was…

— Alex Flinn

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and…

— Joe Bob Briggs

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think…

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

— Kenneth Tynan

I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo…

— Sonia Braga

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

— Diane Paulus

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I…

— Shanley Caswell

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy…

— David Zucker

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.

— Judd Nelson

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as…

— Patrick J. Adams

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did…

— Don Ameche

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained…

— Alan Rickman

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on…

— Emma Donoghue

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and…

— Courtney B. Vance

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

— Brian Tee

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to…

— Seth MacFarlane