Theater Quotes · Page 25

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

— Robert Wilson

In high school I had done a little theater. It was a place to meet girls.

— Robert Beltran

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a…

— Lisa Lucas

Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

— Bethany Joy Galeotti

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart,

— Phylicia Rashad

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

— Hyman Taubman

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

— Joseph Gatt

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have…

— Diane Paulus

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I had a theater that was right across the street from me, and I would just go there after school and just…

— Jeffrey Tambor

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the…

— Hayley Mills

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to…

— Becki Newton

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was…

— Bill Pullman

I love the theater! I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in…

— Lea Michele

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their…

— Diego Luna

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle,…

— Lawrence Wright

I think I'll never stop doing theater because it's a more physical and athletic activity. You can't pull any punches; there are…

— Sterling K. Brown

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I like doing everything - theater and film, radio and TV, comedy and tragedy. I love it all. And I've never really…

— Alfred Molina

In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience…

— Susan Sarandon

“Clear your throat and open your eyes. You are on stage. The lights are on. It’s only natural if you’re sweating, because…

— N.D. Wilson

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish…

— Jonny Lee Miller

I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about…

— Amanda Plummer

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

— Linden Ashby

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

— Cate Blanchett

“If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.”

— Buck Bannister

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

— Julie Halston

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

— Katharine Hepburn

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

— Patricia Heaton

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie…

— Lucy Fisher

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

— Bill Pullman

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I…

— Sam Rockwell

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

— Jim Parsons

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

— Zosia Mamet

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

— Harold Prince

“Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.”

— Michelle Knudsen