Theater Quotes · Page 37

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

— Dianne Wiest

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

— Emma Stone

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

— John Tiffany

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

— Barack Obama

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

— Bobby Cannavale

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

— Chad Lowe

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain…

— Gretel Ehrlich

'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.

— Maya Beiser

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical…

— Beah Richards

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the…

— Tallulah Bankhead

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool…

— Gloria Swanson

The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor…

— Aldo Leopold

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater…

— Gerry Lopez

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a…

— Julie Harris

One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I…

— Deepa Mehta

Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that…

— Mark Krikorian

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a…

— James Pearse Connelly

I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions…

— Dennis Haysbert

My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just…

— Drew Goddard

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I…

— Woody Allen

I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have…

— Nina Arianda

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories.…

— R. Kelly

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

— August Wilson

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

— Clarke Peters

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as…

— Patrick J. Adams

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

— Ray Bradbury

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a…

— David Geffen

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

— Misty Copeland

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

— Ian McShane

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

— David Hasselhoff

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

— Kevin Daniels

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

— Jake Johnson

You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!

— The Miz

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

— Patrick Macnee

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

— Carrie Coon

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon