Theater Quotes · Page 50

The professional's love for the theater is less pure than that of the non-professional's.

— Van Heflin

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

— Dakin Matthews

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

— Luke Evans

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

— Laura Harrier

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

— Oscar Wilde

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

— Janet McTeer

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

— Val Kilmer

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I…

— Adrianne Palicki

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage,…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through…

— Colin Callender

I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -…

— Michael Cerveris

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the…

— Lauren Bacall

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the…

— Amy Landecker

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and…

— Viola Spolin

Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where…

— Angela Lansbury

Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's…

— Johnny Galecki

My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a…

— Jim Parsons

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like…

— Emile Hirsch

I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership…

— Dianna Agron

It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money…

— Gore Vidal

Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front…

— Christopher Abbott

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to…

— Ava DuVernay

I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

— LaTanya Richardson

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

— Tim Crouch

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

— Roberto Orci

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

— Rachel Dratch

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

— Goenawan Mohamad

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

— Joel Hodgson

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

— Thea Sharrock

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

— Ansel Elgort

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

— Tim Matheson

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

— Andy Serkis

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

— F. Sionil Jose

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

— Kathleen Turner

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

— Matthew Settle

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

— Julie Taymor

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

— Michael Clarke Duncan

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

— Richard Griffiths