Theater Quotes · Page 41

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

— Elizabeth Olsen

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New…

— Christopher Denham

I love to go to the theater and watch movies when I have a chance.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

— Katee Sackhoff

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

— Rene Auberjonois

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

— Damian Lewis

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

— Suzanne Brockmann

“The theater was empty: nobody had come. Sometimes these things happen, and nobody can say why. From ""Amandina".”

— Sergio Ruzzier

There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays…

— Marsha Norman

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went…

— Twyla Tharp

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But…

— Stephen Schwartz

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater.…

— Alexander Koch

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things…

— Christian Lacroix

“Life is like an ongoing theater performance, absolutely everyone has a role; thus, how good are you performing your role?”

— Rodolfo Peon

It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one…

— Amy Adams

“But the old Italian commedia that I loved—Pantaloon, Harlequin, Scaramouche, and the rest—lived on as they always had, with tightrope walkers, acrobats,…

— Anne Rice

I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I…

— Cedric Yarbrough

The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted… I find myself…

— Harold Pinter

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take…

— Jenny Downham

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to…

— Laura Benanti

I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed…

— Keith Carradine

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You…

— Jake M. Johnson

customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to…

— Sarah Siddons

You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.

— Ann Reinking

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

— Mandy Patinkin

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

— Wayne Knight

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

— Julian Ovenden

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

— Christine and the Queens

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

— Ari Graynor

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

— Jason Ralph

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

— Sarah Silverman

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

— Abby Brammell

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

— David Hockney

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

— Norm MacDonald

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

I wanted to be a Broadway actress; I was always interested in music and theater.

— Randi Zuckerberg

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart