if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife… — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that… — Kevin Rahm Copy Share Image
I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long… — Steve Burns Copy Share Image
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art,… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
I perform regularly with a theater company called Outside the Wire who take performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater,… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The… — Maureen Stapleton Copy Share Image
We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which… — Stark Sands Copy Share Image
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place… — Olivia Cooke Copy Share Image
I really only did theater in school in college. I did summer stock a couple of times in the summer, and plays… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater. — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical… — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
