Theater Quotes · Page 21

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with…

— Jerry Hall

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting…

— Michael Fassbender

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

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly…

— Sam Mendes

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

— Robert Edmond Jones

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

— Paul Dano

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

— Taylor Schilling

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I love life. I love the live theater.

— Chita Rivera

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to…

— Eleanor Tomlinson

The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because…

— Cary Elwes

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a…

— Harvey Fierstein

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies…

— Isabelle Huppert

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

— Rich Brian

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are…

— Michael B. Jordan

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So…

— Skylar Astin

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a…

— Mireille Enos

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make…

— Tony Kushner

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a…

— Tom Stoppard

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute…

— Clive Owen

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any…

— Christian Bale