Theater Quotes · Page 52

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

— Charles Durning

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

— Ellen Terry

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

— Trevor Nunn

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but…

— Angela Lansbury

Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff.

— Rutina Wesley

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

— Wendell Pierce

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling…

— Lauren Worsham

To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is…

— Cate Blanchett

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future…

— Laurie Metcalf

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more…

— David Hyde Pierce

I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just…

— Maureen Johnson

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

— Ruth Wilson

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:…

— Leonard Nimoy

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in…

— Sarah Butler

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a…

— Blair Underwood

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Goenawan Mohamad

I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who…

— Alfred Lunt

I owe a great debt to what we call the amateur theater.

— Van Heflin

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

— John Lithgow

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to…

— Anthony Edwards