Theater Quotes · Page 26

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

— Courtney B. Vance

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

— Alia Shawkat

“The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful”

— Ben Platt

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

— Lena Olin

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

— Ethel Barrymore

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

— Tom Stoppard

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

— Manoj Bajpayee

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no…

— Kurt Fuller

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in…

— Hayley Atwell

You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who…

— Penn Jillette

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to…

— David Ogden Stiers

I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing…

— Tony Kushner

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully…

— A. Alfred Taubman

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn…

— Indira Varma

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like…

— Jon Lovitz

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day…

— Joel Edgerton

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a…

— Bill Hader

I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit…

— Isabel Toledo

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to…

— Seth MacFarlane

Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean,…

— Oliver Stone

When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was…

— Eamonn Walker

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

— Bob the Drag Queen

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

— Tallulah Bankhead

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

— Morgan Freeman

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater…

— Adam Baldwin

I love being on stage. I went into theater at five. I realized I really had something here.

— Madelaine Petsch

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

— Natalie Zea

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

— Jason Reitman

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

— Marina Abramovic

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

— Kristen Stewart

Well, theater is kind of my life blood. Not kind of - it is my life blood.

— Christopher Jackson

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

— Carice van Houten

In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

— Frances McDormand

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an…

— Christine and the Queens

I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I…

— Richard Linklater

I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.

— Laurence Fishburne