Theater Quotes · Page 27

I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air…

— Steve Hely

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

— Will Smith

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth…

— Ilan Stavans

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

— Dana Brunetti

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of…

— Pierce Brosnan

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

— Jane Krakowski

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd…

— Casey Affleck

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the…

— Kenneth Lonergan

The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is…

— Woody Allen

I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed…

— Laura Fraser

I particularly love theater, I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try…

— Malcolm McDowell

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be…

— James Roday

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

— Eva Mendes

It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making…

— Charles Kimbrough

Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

— James Spader

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

— David Duchovny

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

— Alia Shawkat

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom…

— Nolan Gould

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

— Renee O'Connor

I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of…

— Bryan Singer

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in…

— Geoff Johns

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of…

— Bertolt Brecht

I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to…

— Michael Snow

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

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

— Adrienne Shelly