Theater Quotes · Page 22

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

— Paul Dano

I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.

— Stephen Amell

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

— Julia Stiles

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

— Ralph Fiennes

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

— Tom Stoppard

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

— Tavis Smiley

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and…

— Joe Bob Briggs

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something…

— Jeff Daniels

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out…

— Amanda Plummer

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't…

— Elisha Cuthbert

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one…

— Arthur Penn

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the…

— Jane Asher

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of…

— Justin Chon

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater…

— Tatiana Maslany

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of…

— Michael Fassbender

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text…

— Don DeLillo

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is…

— Arthur Miller

I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very…

— Joel Grey

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and…

— Franka Potente

For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood,…

— Agnivesh

In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids…

— Michael Jai White

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I…

— Tyler Hilton

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future…

— Laurie Metcalf

I'd love to shoot some of these bigger movies as they come, and I'll go back to theater at some point again.

— Jacob Zachar

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

— Cate Blanchett

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

— Mario Van Peebles

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

— Nathan Lane

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

— John Lithgow

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

— Lauren Velez

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

— Bellamy Young

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

— Abbas Kiarostami

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a…

— Dan Glickman

My whole life, not just in my professional career but in community theater, I played the supporting role.

— Beanie Feldstein

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

— Jake Johnson