Theater Quotes · Page 47

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

— Doug Davidson

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

— Irwin Shaw

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

— Michael Learned

I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

— Milos Forman

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

— Sarah Shahi

If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.

— Lucas Hedges

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were…

— Paulo Coelho

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that…

— Nicole Kidman

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles…

— Julianne Moore

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make…

— Oliver Stone

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust…

— M. C. Gainey

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early…

— Carlisle Floyd

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on…

— Haylie Duff

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as…

— Harold Ramis

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of…

— Joshua Malina

It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people…

— Stephen Daldry

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People…

— Paul Rudd

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of…

— Abhishek Bachchan

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside…

— Mare Winningham

Comedy people are always present because they're always looking for the funniest version of whatever the line is. Sometimes theater people, where…

— Chris O'Dowd

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps…

— Angela Thirkell

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

— Estelle Parsons

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

— Marianne Faithfull

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

— Bill Dedman

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

— Kevin Richardson

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

— Aaron Sorkin

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

— John Glover

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

— Samuel Larsen

In New York theater, you always talk about wanting a great ensemble of actors.

— Christopher Lloyd

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

— Jason Ralph

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

— Jasper Fforde

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first…

— Scott Bakula

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

— Jason Alexander

“Since they are theater people, they do not need to be heard... they only need to be speaking.”

— John Green and David Levithan

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

— Hal Holbrook

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

— Alice Ripley

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

— John Barrymore