Theater Quotes · Page 27

I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.

— Grey DeLisle

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

— Scott Caan

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.

— Bonobo

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

— Judy Blume

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

— Dan Fogler

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

— Jerry Herman

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

— Edward Albee

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put…

— Anne Hathaway

It's a different world in Los Angeles because people approach acting in different ways; it's all about movies and TV, and I…

— Paul Raci

All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it's so…

— Phillipa Soo

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know…

— Michael Gambon

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which…

— Diane Paulus

'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for…

— Shane Carruth

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting…

— Arthur Miller

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the…

— Adam Lambert

To me, the fun part of both jobs is to always try to push the discussion and debate forward in some way.…

— Frank Rich

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an…

— Melissa Rosenberg

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy,…

— John Lithgow

D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs,…

— Gilles Deleuze

There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I…

— Boyd Holbrook

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium.…

— Eli Wallach

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

— Paul Rudd

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

— Joshua Jackson

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

— Lady Gaga

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

— Chad Lowe

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do…

— Ayad Akhtar

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of…

— Carl Weathers

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

— Austin Scarlett

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

— David Morse

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

— Mike Portnoy

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot…

— Steven Knight

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

— Megan Hilty

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

— Cameron Mackintosh

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

— Jesse Ventura

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor