Theater Quotes · Page 69

We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters…

— J. J. Abrams

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

— Gerard Butler

The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my…

— John Hughes

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV…

— Jerry Orbach

I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.

— Katie Finneran

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

— Anne Archer

I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love…

— Casey Neistat

Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today…

— Adolf Hitler

I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school,…

— Julian Ovenden

It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you…

— Pablo Schreiber

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

— Marina Abramovic

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

— Jasper Fforde

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

— Paul Wesley

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space…

— David Dobkin

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

— Jeffrey Wright

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater…

— Karen Allen

Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that…

— Terry Kinney

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that…

— Jean Kerr

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television…

— Kenneth Branagh

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical…

— Juliet Landau

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

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our…

— Michael Huffington

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

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them…

— Stephen King

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

— Brion James

I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and…

— Lucinda Coxon

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

— Jesse Eisenberg

“Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort…

— Mark Krikorian

I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though.…

— Dan Futterman

I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.

— Jefferson Mays

You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something

— Kenneth Haigh

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot…

— Deborah Mailman

I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options…

— Kangna Ranaut

My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in…

— Dick Gephardt

Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces.…

— Susan Sarandon

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

— Lauren Worsham

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a…

— Tom Hanks