Theater Quotes · Page 34

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

— Trevor Nunn

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

— Cailee Spaeny

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

— John Rhys-Davies

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

— Milla Jovovich

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

— Anonymous

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans.”

— Rebecca Wells

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it…

— Laurie Metcalf

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I…

— Fergie

I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a…

— Brent Spiner

I really do love the theater, and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time…

— Chris Carmack

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless…

— Roger Ebert

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at…

— Toni Tennille

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the…

— Christopher Walken

The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the…

— Robert Lepage

I really think 'Spring Awakening' is unlike any other show. At the end of the day, I hope people are moved by…

— Jake Epstein

Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today…

— Adolf Hitler

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again -…

— Missi Pyle

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that…

— Colin Hanks

If it's a 50-seat theater, I am neurotic about whether I'm doing an honest performance. Sometimes I walk away happy enough with…

— Cameron Britton

This is not a legitimate congressional exercise. This is not a fact-finding hearing. This is theater. This is a charade. This is…

— Hakeem Jeffries

Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters…

— Laura Ziskin

To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with…

— Alistair Cooke

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

— Lara Pulver

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

— Al Pacino

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

— Zachary Quinto

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

— Clarice Taylor

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

— Jack Lemmon

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

— Jane Krakowski

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

— Luke Kirby

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

— Emma Watson

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

— Jason Gann

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

— Jessica Hagedorn

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the…

— Tom Hanks

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

— Christina Hendricks

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with…

— Julie Taymor

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

— Richard Foreman

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

— Spiro Kostof