Theater Quotes · Page 86

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a…

— Alona Tal

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about…

— Sada Thompson

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

— Dick Gephardt

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned…

— Wendell Pierce

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind…

— Christopher Walken

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live…

— Jason Alexander

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in…

— Harvey Fierstein

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel…

— Joan Allen

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't…

— Sebastian Stan

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts…

— Nilo Cruz

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,…

— Jill Scott

I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership…

— Dianna Agron

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like…

— Emile Hirsch

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money…

— Gore Vidal

Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front…

— Christopher Abbott

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town…

— Dante Ferretti

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the…

— Omar Sharif

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you…

— Louise Fletcher

I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI],…

— Malcolm X

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out…

— Susanna Hoffs

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if…

— Justin Kirk

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very…

— Amy Bloom

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers.…

— Rick Perlstein

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for…

— Bertolt Brecht

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing…

— Liev Schreiber

I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of…

— Jim Parsons

I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel…

— Kelly Stables

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all…

— Israel Horovitz

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I…

— Alan Alda

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 acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I…

— Rob Reiner

When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I…

— Sasheer Zamata

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and…

— Megan Mullally

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage,…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I…

— Adrianne Palicki

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through…

— Colin Callender

I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -…

— Michael Cerveris

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the…

— Amy Landecker

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the…

— Lauren Bacall