Theater Quotes · Page 32

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

— David Friedman

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

— Adrianne Palicki

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

— Melanie Laurent

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

— Samuel Johnson

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

— Sam Tsui

I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.

— Robert Lepage

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

— Scott Bakula

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

— Jim McKay

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so…

— Lillian Hellman

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for…

— Adam Driver

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to…

— Neil Patrick Harris

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got…

— John Guare

“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see…

— M.L. Rio

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity,…

— Trevor Nunn

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its…

— Marilyn Manson

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays.…

— Daphne Zuniga

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself…

— Antonin Artaud

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a…

— Brett Dalton

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to…

— Howard Shore

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me…

— Dorothy Parker

Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living…

— Andre Maurois

My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts…

— Russell Crowe

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel…

— Mignon McLaughlin

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

— Justin Bartha

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

— Vaclav Havel

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

— Ann Dowd

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

— Anonymous

I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.

— Ana Layevska

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

— Lauren Worsham

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

— George C. Wolfe

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

— Viola Davis

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

— Jane Krakowski

Theater programs in colleges seemed designed to make gay people act straight.

— Cole Escola

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

— Marisa Tomei

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

— Ansel Elgort

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

— Agnes Moorehead

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

— Dana Brunetti