Theater Quotes · Page 38

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

— Bellamy Young

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

— Abbas Kiarostami

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a…

— Dan Glickman

My whole life, not just in my professional career but in community theater, I played the supporting role.

— Beanie Feldstein

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

— Nathan Lane

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

— John Lithgow

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater…

— Jim Parsons

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by…

— Diane Paulus

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did…

— Arthur Miller

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film…

— Letitia Wright

I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I…

— Liana Liberato

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for…

— Nico Tortorella

My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like…

— Robin Williams

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with…

— Clarence Darrow

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire…

— Paul Auster

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements…

— Eddie Redmayne

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you…

— Margaret Atwood

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience.…

— Brianna Brown

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

— Lauren Velez

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

— Tom Stoppard

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

— Tavis Smiley

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I…

— Tyler Hilton

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

— Cate Blanchett

I'd love to shoot some of these bigger movies as they come, and I'll go back to theater at some point again.

— Jacob Zachar

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future…

— Laurie Metcalf

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

— Mario Van Peebles

I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.

— Robert Eggers

Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

— Lance Henriksen

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

— Norm MacDonald

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

— Ambrose Bierce

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

— Idina Menzel

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

— Clark Gregg