Theater Quotes · Page 35

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

— Ethel Merman

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.

— Marc Platt

The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for…

— Richard Cabral

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

— Stanley Tucci

I really miss so much being at the theater and being able to do plays.

— Phil Dunster

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.

— Joel Edgerton

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

— Denzel Washington

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized…

— Asghar Farhadi

This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do…

— Donal Logue

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know,…

— Ian Mckellen

“I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from…

— Konstantin Stanislavski

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it…

— Mary Oliver

I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also…

— Ian Mckellen

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked…

— Maximilian Schell

That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the…

— Peter Dinklage

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how…

— Adriana Trigiani

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch…

— Rhys Ifans

From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school.…

— Beth Behrs

I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's…

— Todd Phillips

If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized…

— Ian Mckellen

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy…

— Hallie Flanagan

I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to…

— Om Puri

I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the…

— Lynn Nottage

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

— Jesse Eisenberg

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

— Tom Hanks

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

— Jane Krakowski

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with…

— Sam Shepard

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

— Kenneth Tynan

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to do little theater or go on the road with a show.

— Fred MacMurray

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

— John Sculley

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

— John Goodwin

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

— Ben Vereen

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

— Kate Winslet

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

— Bill Tilden