Theater Quotes · Page 33

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

— Terry Semel

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless

— Steve Allen

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

— Alvin Ailey

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like…

— Jillian Bach

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

— Philip Baker Hall

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

— Connie Britton

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook

To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in,…

— Marti Noxon

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job…

— Kieran Bew

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are…

— Mark Rydell

The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience,…

— Carol Kane

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my…

— Tatiana Maslany

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory…

— Adam Brody

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at…

— Charles de Lint

It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)…

— Tadeusz Kantor

on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the…

— Marya Mannes

I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater.…

— Guy Wilson

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being…

— Enrico Colantoni

“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the…

— Terry Pratchett

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the…

— Rex Harrison

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

— Liana Liberato

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the…

— Piper Perabo

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

— Mason Cooley

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

— Christian Louboutin

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

— Kevin Spacey

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

— Patti LuPone

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

— Charlie Kaufman

I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a…

— Martha Graham

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

— Ben Fountain

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

— David Bryan

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

— Peter Hermann

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

— Tony Kushner

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

— Tony Kushner

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

— Allison Williams