Theater Quotes · Page 48

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

— Joe Manganiello

The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect…

— Sarah Siddons

“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

I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other…

— Keegan-Michael Key

Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and…

— Kim Cattrall

I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

— Elia Kazan

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you…

— Michael Douglas

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these…

— Jason Reitman

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like…

— Jillian Bach

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

— Peter Hermann

Wray Nerely, the character in Con Man, he actually had a role in Rogue One, but he got cut. It sucked. John…

— Alan Tudyk

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the…

— Joe Morton

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to…

— Antonio Banderas

I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it,…

— David Lambert

I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in…

— Robert Kazinsky

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new…

— Natasha Tsakos

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was…

— Harold Prince

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous…

— Susan Sontag

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

— Lena Olin

I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful…

— Jehane Noujaim

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

— John Sculley

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories.…

— R. Kelly

Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program,…

— Caroline Blakiston