Theater Quotes · Page 39

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

— Rich Brian

“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!”

— Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

— Margaret Cho

Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

— George C. Wolfe

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

— Henry Winkler

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

— Wole Soyinka

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

— Tim Crouch

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

— Sarah Paulson

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon…

— Stanley Tucci

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about…

— Kevin Spacey

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new…

— Natasha Tsakos

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to…

— Brian Cox

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work…

— Tom Stoppard

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity…

— Adam Gopnik

Early on, I had a passion for theater, but my parents were very sports-focused, so while I played different sports, theater was…

— Ryan Serhant

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.'…

— Jeffrey Donovan

When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of…

— Christopher Walken

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then…

— Anton Yelchin

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater…

— Jason Isaacs

You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is…

— Dustin Hoffman

Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from…

— Wes Craven

It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old…

— Frank Gehry

“When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, "We're all here to undergo a communion, to find…

— David Mamet

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

— Annette Funicello

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

— Rainn Wilson

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

— Debra Messing

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

— Jacki Weaver

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director…

— Greta Gerwig

That's what theater does, right? You all become this little family.

— Molly Gordon

I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.

— Billy Eichner

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

— James Lipton

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

— Betty Gilpin

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

— John Lithgow

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

— Josh Young

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

— Wole Soyinka

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

— Ann Reinking

Ballet is the one form of theater where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening nobody on the stage at least.

— Edwin Denby