Theater Quotes · Page 28

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

— Harold Clurman

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

— Shanola Hampton

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want…

— Aaron Tveit

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

— Marlo Thomas

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

— Katie Finneran

I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and…

— Sanaa Lathan

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage…

— Brendan Dooling

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible…

— Sophia Loren

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together…

— John Guare

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I…

— Jeff Daniels

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If…

— Cate Blanchett

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie…

— Jared Leto

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was…

— Brian d'Arcy James

Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if…

— Art Spiegelman

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene…

— Alan Cumming

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for…

— Saul Williams

People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is…

— Margot Robbie

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce…

— Paul Newman

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

“You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.”

— Rebecca Murphy

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

— John Lithgow

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

— Robin Meyers

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

— Harland Williams

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

— Paul Wesley

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

— Vincente Minnelli

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

“Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.”

— Gaetano Pesche

I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

— Jason Earles

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

— Jason Robards