Theater Quotes · Page 119

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking,…

— Abby Brammell

As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and…

— Simon Pegg

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of…

— Robin McLeavy

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The…

— Carey Mulligan

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

— Alan Rickman

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

— Henry David Thoreau

At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with…

— Luigi Russolo

Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten…

— Robert Greene

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever…

— Uzo Aduba

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

— Nick Offerman

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

— Mason Cooley

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning…

— Linda Lavin

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

— Philip Baker Hall

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

— Grace Gummer

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came…

— Thomas Jane

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy.…

— Patrick Wilson

I studied theater at UCLA and wrote plays during my time there.

— Mikey Day

Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was…

— Dorian Missick

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

— Julian Ovenden

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics…

— Albert Hadley

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I…

— Fede Alvarez

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

— Cate Blanchett

I'm in a very good place now because I do theater, I do TV and I make movies. I was a dancer,…

— Richard Sammel