Theater Quotes · Page 18

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Galactica' resembles 'Bonanza' because it's all theater.

— Lorne Greene

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

— Laura San Giacomo

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

— Dan Levy

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

— George Jean Nathan

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

— Dakin Matthews

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

— Luke Evans

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

— Laura Harrier

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

— Oscar Wilde

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

— Betty Buckley

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle…

— Nile Rodgers

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who…

— Glenn Close

I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.

— Jeff Perry

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about…

— Harold Prince

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor…

— Robert Knepper

When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my…

— Nina Arianda

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was…

— Harold Prince

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's…

— Dylan O'Brien

There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I…

— Frank Wildhorn

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television…

— Kenneth Branagh

My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a…

— Jose Parla

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago…

— Denis O'Hare

I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love…

— Casey Neistat

I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown…

— Natasha Tsakos

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,…

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Brian Tee

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

— Amy Schumer

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

— Cherrie Moraga

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

— Ben Whishaw

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

— George C. Wolfe

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

— Eleanora Duse

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

— Sam Mendes

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

— Jason Ralph

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

— Sarah Silverman

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

— Abby Brammell

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

— David Hockney