Theater Quotes · Page 44

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

— Cheyenne Jackson

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

— Jill Clayburgh

“Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.”

— Janet Fitch

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

— Katharine Cornell

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

— Patrick Wilson

Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed.…

— Alfred Lunt

I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell…

— Laura Benanti

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the…

— Sean Penn

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know…

— Michael Gambon

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which…

— Diane Paulus

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting…

— Arthur Miller

'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for…

— Shane Carruth

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the…

— Adam Lambert

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we…

— James Caan

I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so…

— Judy Greer

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which…

— Albert Camus

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the…

— Marco Pierre White

I felt it was really important to come here to see what was happening in New York. So, I came to see…

— Babette Mangolte

In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings…

— Marian Seldes

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and…

— F. Sionil Jose

I had started doing small community theater shows in my hometown of Cleveland. I did a lot of shows there before I…

— Isabela Moner

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

— William Mapother

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night…

— Amy Sedaris

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

— Deirdre Lovejoy

“I’m sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You’ve just got to do it all.”

— Michael Sokolove

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

— Miranda Cosgrove

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

— Arthur Miller

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

— Haley Joel Osment

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

— Lauren Worsham

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

— Susan Sontag

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement…

— Yolanda Adams

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

— Carol Kane

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

— Sonia Braga

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

— Jean Kerr

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

— Ben Platt