Theater Quotes · Page 29

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

— Alfred Molina

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

— Richard Simmons

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

— Michael Caine

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

— Angela Robinson

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for…

— Cynthia Nixon

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty…

— Gabriel Macht

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world…

— Jeff Britting

All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in…

— Martial

I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to…

— Dascha Polanco

I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us…

— Diane Paulus

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the…

— Bernard Berenson

I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the…

— Allen Covert

Wray Nerely, the character in Con Man, he actually had a role in Rogue One, but he got cut. It sucked. John…

— Alan Tudyk

If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who…

— Fran Lebowitz

In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a…

— Cillian Murphy

I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects,…

— Jeff Britting

As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little…

— Maggie Siff

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's…

— Terry Teachout

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

— Johnny Galecki

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

— Javier Bardem

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

— Willem Dafoe

I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out.

— Nia DaCosta

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

— Jonathan Pryce

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

— Adam Driver

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

— Juliet Mills

That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

— Amanda Righetti

When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to…

— Tony Todd

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

— Kate Fleetwood

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my…

— Winona Ryder

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left…

— Cary Elwes

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

— Ed Asner

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

— Robert Edmond Jones