Theater Quotes · Page 23

You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!

— The Miz

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

— Patrick Macnee

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

— Carrie Coon

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

— August Wilson

“Psihanalistul devine regizorul unui teatru privat - in loc sa fie inginerul sau mecanicul care monteaza unitati de productie, care se lupta…

— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

I had done lots of theater and I really wanted to do screen work. I said to my agent, "Look, I really…

— Gwendoline Christie

I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and…

— Lucinda Coxon

Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a…

— Brian Regan

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The first four years, I worked exclusively in the theater. I did a great deal of different types of acting - avant…

— Denis Lawson

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and…

— Lindsay Pearce

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why…

— Andrew Lau

No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now,…

— Antonio Banderas

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are…

— Diane Setterfield

We both [me and Eugene Levy] come from the same place. Eugene did most of his work in SCTV and ensemble situations.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're…

— Finn Wittrock

“Magnus had caught it gingerly, half expecting it to blow in his face. The Teacher chuckled. "Don't worry, it can't do anything…

— Susan Wiggs

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's…

— Glenda Jackson

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that.…

— Reggie Watts

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

— Clarke Peters

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as…

— Patrick J. Adams

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

— Ray Bradbury

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a…

— David Geffen

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

— Misty Copeland

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

— Ian McShane

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

— David Hasselhoff

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

— Kevin Daniels

When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.

— Mark Kurlansky

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

— Will Smith

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

— Dianne Wiest

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

— James Broughton

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

— Emma Stone

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

— John Tiffany

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

— Barack Obama