Theater Quotes · Page 20

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

— Samuel Larsen

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

— Jason Ralph

In New York theater, you always talk about wanting a great ensemble of actors.

— Christopher Lloyd

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

— Jasper Fforde

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

— Jason Alexander

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first…

— Scott Bakula

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

— Alice Ripley

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

— Hal Holbrook

“The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind…

— Stewart Stafford

Most of our occupations are low comedy… We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of…

— Michel de Montaigne

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at…

— Beverly Sills

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that…

— Shane Carruth

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought…

— Ludivine Sagnier

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors…

— Yul Vazquez

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks,…

— Zeljko Ivanek

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but…

— Sophia Bush

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely…

— Dallas Roberts

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others…

— Anonymous

I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if…

— Jonathan Groff

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond…

— Stephen Colbert

Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People…

— RuPaul

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn…

— Viola Spolin

“Since they are theater people, they do not need to be heard... they only need to be speaking.”

— John Green and David Levithan

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

— Ruth Wilson

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

— John Barrymore

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

— Joe Morton

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

— Anonymous

“The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.”

— Bryant McGill

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

— Lou Reed

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with…

— Sam Shepard

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

— James Frain

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

— Brendan Sexton III

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

— Robert Brustein

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

— Eydie Gorme

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

— Doug Davidson

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

— Irwin Shaw

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

— Michael Learned