Theater Quotes · Page 46

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

— Robert Knepper

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

— Mike Colter

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

— Meital Dohan

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

— Werner Herzog

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like…

— Anonymous

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

— Harvey Fierstein

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to…

— Brian Cox

My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't…

— Cody Simpson

“If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must…

— Konstantin Stanislavski

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will…

— Agnes de Mille

There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is…

— Michael Moore

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

— Franz Grillparzer

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would…

— David Morse

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying…

— Quentin Tarantino

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on…

— James McAvoy

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair…

— Ben Brantley

Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are…

— Kevin Spacey

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in…

— James Dean

I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child…

— Mary Zimmerman

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break…

— Strom Thurmond

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views…

— Max Lucado

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

— Michael Moore

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

— Lily Rabe

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

— Faith Prince

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

— Michael Ritchie

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I didn't ask for your résumé,theater freak. You people love to talk, don't you.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.

— Stephen Amell

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

— Paul Dano

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

— Julia Stiles

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

— Ralph Fiennes

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with…

— Sam Shepard

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

— James Frain

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

— Brendan Sexton III

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

— Eydie Gorme