Theater Quotes · Page 48

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

— Ruth Wilson

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

— Anonymous

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

— Joe Morton

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

— Lou Reed

“The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.”

— Bryant McGill

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

— John Hurt

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to…

— Cher

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

There's something magical about making films. But theater, where it all started for me, makes you better at the craft of storytelling.

— Mike Faist

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always…

— Robert Wilson

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to…

— David Ives

When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same.…

— Kurt Fuller

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I…

— Larry Flynt

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or…

— Quincy Jones

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a…

— Gerald Early

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You…

— Garrison Keillor

2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen…

— Robert Reed

One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based…

— Colin Callender

... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the…

— Emma Goldman

I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those…

— Ed Speleers

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with…

— Lisa Randall

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

— Patrick J. Adams

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

— Bebe Neuwirth

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

— Ingmar Bergman

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

— Jesse L. Martin

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

— Craig Bierko

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

— Elaine Stritch

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

— Liv Ullmann

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

— Colman Domingo

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

— Dorothy McGuire

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

— Drew Lachey

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart