Theater Quotes · Page 41

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

— Kevin Spacey

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

— Patti LuPone

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

— Charlie Kaufman

I trained in theater. I loved Los Angeles, but I've found New York to be successful for me.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a…

— Martha Graham

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

— Ben Fountain

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like…

— Jillian Bach

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

— Philip Baker Hall

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York,…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the…

— Concha Buika

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have…

— Diane Paulus

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to…

— Becki Newton

I had a theater that was right across the street from me, and I would just go there after school and just…

— Jeffrey Tambor

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the…

— Hayley Mills

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was…

— Bill Pullman

If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off…

— Emma Stone

Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people…

— Judd Apatow

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that…

— Baron Vaughn

I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that…

— Joel Kinnaman

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of…

— John Logan

You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical…

— Dylan Moran

Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten…

— Robert Greene

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

— Connie Britton

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

— Liana Liberato

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

— Mason Cooley

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the…

— Piper Perabo

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

— Christian Louboutin

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

— Darren Criss

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

— Marc Platt

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

— Madonna Ciccone

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

— Joe Rogan

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

— Marian Seldes

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face…

— Thornton Wilder

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

— Maddie Hasson

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

— Courtney Love

The stock company, as I knew it is dead. Road companies are few and far between. Still the theater must survive.

— Van Heflin

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw