Theater Quotes · Page 24

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

— Baz Luhrmann

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

— Will Rogers

Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

— John Tiffany

I would love to write something that I'm not in and just be in a rehearsal room as a writer. But I…

— Cole Escola

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

— Zac Efron

I made my living as a theater actor before I got my record deal.

— Lari White

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

— Ruth Wilson

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually…

— Colm Meaney

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in…

— James F. Amos

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with…

— Ridley Scott

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun…

— Mac Davis

When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every…

— Adam Rapp

Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh…

— Lee Byung-hun

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York,…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the…

— Concha Buika

I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding…

— William Cohen

In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part…

— Brian Dennehy

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a…

— Blair Underwood

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see…

— Michael Bay

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and…

— Hallie Flanagan

When that word came down that the company had decided that we were going to go theatrical, we hooped and hollered and…

— Klay Hall

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I…

— Kevin Hart

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is…

— Newton N. Minow

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

— Robert Gossett

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

— Michael Caine

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

— Christy Mathewson

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

— Les Claypool

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

— Sam Rockwell

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

— Ryan Eggold

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

— Marcia Gay Harden

The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.

— Rich Hall

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

— Richard Armitage

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

— Adrianne Palicki

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

— James Lapine

I like to think of performance-wear just like theater: we're making a character come to life each night.

— Doechii

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

— Suzanne Farrell

My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.

— Michael Schultz

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

— Eddie Cahill