Theater Quotes · Page 91

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

— John Guare

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

— Michael Moore

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

— Jerry Herman

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier…

— Patrick Stewart

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

— Morgan Freeman

You turn up in the morning, you get through hair and make-up, and then you are on set working until it's time…

— Andre Holland

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies…

— Charles Kimbrough

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything,…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find…

— Shoshannah Stern

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks…

— Sophia Bush

It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in…

— Ellen Marlow

People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how…

— John Lithgow

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text…

— Don DeLillo

I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You…

— Jackee Harry

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work.…

— Brian Dennehy

During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project…

— Hugh Hardy

A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up…

— Robert Klein

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

— Alan Rickman

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And…

— Billy Eichner

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg

I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not…

— Aurora Guerrero

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think…

— Richard Griffiths

The theater is the reason I am an actress.

— LaTanya Richardson