Theater Quotes · Page 42

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.

— Corey Stoll

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

— Moss Hart

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

— Nick Offerman

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

— Jeffrey Wright

Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

— James Spader

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

— Kevin Spacey

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

— Justin Bartha

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty…

— Gabriel Macht

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for…

— Cynthia Nixon

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely…

— Brian Tyree Henry

All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in…

— Martial

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world…

— Jeff Britting

I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to…

— Dascha Polanco

I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us…

— Diane Paulus

Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I…

— Cillian Murphy

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as…

— Anonymous

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up…

— Robert Klein

Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many…

— James Mattis

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the…

— Mark Doty

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's…

— Brian Cox

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My…

— Tom Hooper

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the…

— William Mapother

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

— La La Anthony

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

— Marcello Mastroianni

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

— Rebecca Hall

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

— Megan Hilty

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who…

— Curtis Hanson

I was a theatre brat, growing up. I have loved theater, performing, as far back as I can remember.

— Billy Zane

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

— Harold Prince

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

— Antonin Artaud

As far as theater goes, Sarah DeLappe's 'The Wolves' is one of my favorite things I've ever seen.

— Beanie Feldstein

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

— Alan Rickman

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

— Shirley Knight

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

— Tom Cullen

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

— Michael Moriarty