Theater Quotes · Page 19

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

— Norm MacDonald

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

I wanted to be a Broadway actress; I was always interested in music and theater.

— Randi Zuckerberg

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

— John Hurt

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the…

— David Lynch

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm…

— Sara Bareilles

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by…

— James Earl Jones

I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And…

— Norm MacDonald

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

— John Petrucci

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings,…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality…

— Andrea Navedo

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea…

— Meghan Markle

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people…

— Clive Owen

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you…

— Gaten Matarazzo

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

“So theater, huh? Not sure I saw that one coming either.” “Why?” My cheeks are warm, but I keep in front of…

— Kristin Rae

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this…

— Alan Tudyk

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,…

— Tim DeKay

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

— Bebe Neuwirth

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

— Patrick J. Adams

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

— Ingmar Bergman

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

— Jesse L. Martin

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

— Craig Bierko

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

— Elaine Stritch

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

— Liv Ullmann

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

— Colman Domingo

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

— Dorothy McGuire

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

— Drew Lachey

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

— Bill Dedman

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

— Kevin Richardson

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

— Aaron Sorkin

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

— John Glover