Theater Quotes · Page 40

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

— Robert Edmond Jones

I do have a passion for theater. But I try my best not to stalk people.

— Anna Kendrick

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

— Busy Philipps

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

— Orson Welles

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

— Jennifer Ehle

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

— Nick Offerman

If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then…

— Jaime Camil

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't…

— Rob Lowe

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was…

— Bob Balaban

London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by…

— Lynda Bellingham

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've…

— Eugene O'Neill

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public…

— Robert Lopez

I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and…

— Zoe Kazan

Adrenaline is always shimmering around in a theater, which you don't get so much in normal life unless you're scared or something…

— Rosemary Harris

Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show…

— Alan Tudyk

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of…

— Treat Williams

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has…

— Grant Gustin

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming.…

— Sonya Walger

The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little…

— Glenn McQuaid

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents,…

— Barack Obama

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers.…

— Franz von Papen

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

— Francois Truffaut

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

— Harvey Milk

That awkward moment when you finish a medium popcorn by the opening credits at the movie theater.

— Anonymous

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

— Mary Martin

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

— Taylor Schilling

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

— Laurie Metcalf

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

— Megan Mullally

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

— Phillipa Soo

I grew up in theater, so I'm all about the process and I love having a process.

— Jerrika Hinton

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

— John Cameron Mitchell

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

— Loni Anderson

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

— Ethan Hawke

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed