Theater Quotes · Page 31

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

— Armand Assante

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.

— Tom Kitt

At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.

— George Washington

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

— Gulzar

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.

— Brad Hall

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

— Romany Malco

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

— Diane Paulus

Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed.…

— Alfred Lunt

I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell…

— Laura Benanti

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the…

— Sean Penn

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there…

— Silas Weir Mitchell

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think…

— Casey Nicholaw

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two…

— Matthew Ashford

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater,…

— T. J. Miller

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in…

— Oscar Isaac

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you…

— Kunal Nayyar

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower…

— Ray Bradbury

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do…

— Amy Landecker

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the…

— Joseph Cornell

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I…

— Kiefer Sutherland

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice…

— Diane Ackerman

I love the rehearsal, as long as it's not over-rehearsed. I love it when the actors can rehearse until we feel really…

— Brad Leland

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every…

— Twyla Tharp

“Besides, you know how I love the theater, and let's face it-a wedding is like a big show followed by a cast…

— Jennifer Allison

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

— Jerry Rubin

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

— John Leguizamo

Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It's a morning to midnight profession.

— Agnes Moorehead

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with…

— Ben Kingsley

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

— Adrienne Shelly

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

— Matthew Morrison

I'll always go back to the theater. It's fulfilling and there's an immediacy to it.

— Gillian Jacobs

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

— David Strathairn

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

— Mike Nichols

I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.

— Megan Hilty

Especially, for me, being a theater actor in New York - this is no snub, but I'm not famous.

— Mike Faist

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

— Charles Durning

Some people, they have the energy and projection that is good for theater. I don't have that.

— Mark Ivanir

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

— Roma Downey