Theater Quotes · Page 61

When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was…

— Eamonn Walker

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley…

— Erica Tazel

Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings.…

— Catherynne M. Valente

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater,…

— Tina Fey

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

— Stephen Moyer

Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God…

— Jimmy Pardo

I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated…

— Amy Seimetz

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was…

— Bob Balaban

“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy…

— Eugene O'Neill

Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their…

— Lee Unkrich

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long…

— Joan Collins

I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I…

— Sarah Paulson

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You…

— Sanaa Lathan

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

— August Wilson

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

— Elizabeth Olsen

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

— Emily Ratajkowski

And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive…

— Tony Kushner

“There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!”

— Fossil Mountain Publishing Editor

Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with…

— Mark Jenkins

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the…

— Paul Newman

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City…

— Mike Birbiglia

With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in…

— Mary-Louise Parker

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.

— Michael Lomenda

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

— Greta Gerwig

The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out…

— Peter Cincotti

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two…

— Matthew Ashford

I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living…

— Seth Rogen

If what I think is God should come down today and says "I'm God, or the thing you call God, and you're…

— Peter Stormare

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not.…

— Alan Arkin

My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work…

— Marin Ireland

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as…

— Samira Wiley

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like…

— Shane Claiborne

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

— Bill Pullman