Theater Quotes · Page 36

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

— Alton Brown

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

— Martha Plimpton

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

— Tom Irwin

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

— Jeremy Irons

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

— Bert Kalmar

Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.

— Bill C Davis

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my…

— Gregory Harrison

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of…

— Chris Pine

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in…

— Ryan Phillippe

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities…

— Erland Josephson

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of…

— Alec Baldwin

I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps…

— Matt Smith

That's one of the most important things about acting is not just when you're speaking but when you're taking in from someone…

— Annette Bening

“He's wrong--high school isn't a pyramid with all the power clustered in a chosen few at the top--it's more of a movie…

— Tiffany Schmidt

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good…

— Ryan Gosling

The stakes at theater camp are insane. You have this three-week period in your life where everything feels like the biggest deal…

— Molly Gordon

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed…

— Jodie Foster

I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater -…

— Jacqueline Emerson

The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The…

— Tracie Thoms

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you…

— Diego Luna

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

— Edward Albee

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

— Robert Brustein

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

— Kate Winslet

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

— William Kraft

Part of the training you get in theater is that you're never going to give up.

— Bill Duke

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

— Richard Wilson

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

— Kurt Fuller

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

— Alan Rickman

Musical theater, I think, is something one learns both from studying what went before and then actually doing it.

— Stephen Schwartz

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

— Martha Graham

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

— Victor Garber

When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.

— Mark Kurlansky

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

— Will Smith

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

— James Broughton