Theater Quotes · Page 21

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act…

— Neil Patrick Harris

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

— Dan Glickman

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

— John Webster

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

— Jessica Hagedorn

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

— Harold Prince

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

— Steve Kazee

“Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.—”

— William Shakespeare

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

— Carroll O'Connor

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out,…

— Jeremy Bulloch

Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why…

— Adam Conover

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ...…

— Eva Le Gallienne

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't…

— Walter Murch

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical…

— Eli Roth

I was shy and didn't believe in myself, and I only bloomed when I was in theater during rehearsal. And that's how…

— Lindsay Pearce

“When I enter the theater and there is a show onstage, it makes me feel safe in the knowledge that the world…

— Amy Poehler

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would…

— Denis Villeneuve

I ask the stunt guys, all the time, to do as much of the stunts as possible, and they let me do…

— Casper Crump

Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music,…

— John Petrucci

It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's…

— Jack White

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the…

— John Malkovich

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from…

— Ed Murray

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself…

— Antonin Artaud

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get…

— James Cromwell

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to…

— Antonio Banderas

In the '80s, 'Dreamgirls' was our 'Hamilton.' It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.

— Angela Robinson

The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

— Oskar Werner

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

— Brendan Behan

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

— Justin Hartley

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

— Cecily Strong

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

— Ruben Studdard

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

— Tatyana Ali

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

— Brenda Blethyn

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

— Zach Gilford

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

— Emily Ratajkowski

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

— Charlotte Caffey

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

— Jeremy Irvine

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

— Brian K. Vaughan