I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down… — Adolph Green Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas,… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care,… — Mark Sanford Copy Share Image
The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors,… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but… — Stacy Keach Copy Share Image
