Theater Quotes · Page 18

I loved the movie theater, so I always saw a lot of movies.

— Ed O'Neill

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

— Frank Rich

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

— Jonathan Freeman

I love life. I love the live theater.

— Chita Rivera

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

— Brett Ratner

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my…

— Winona Ryder

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

— Jason Robards

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

— Sara Ramirez

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

— Miguel Ferrer

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

— George MacKay

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

— Pythagoras

For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you…

— Satya Bhabha

The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater.…

— Julie Halston

There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses.…

— Robert Lepage

“You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front…

— Sam Shepard

Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln –…

— Jimmy Fallon

I love musical theater because it's live. There is no Auto-Tune. There's no second chance. What you see is what you get.…

— Diana DeGarmo

“the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark…

— sarah ruhl

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College…

— Jenna Ushkowitz

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about…

— Carol Kane

When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little…

— Allison Tolman

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons.…

— Elizabeth Ashley

I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school.…

— Craig Brewer

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm…

— Kenneth Branagh

Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles.

— LaChanze

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare…

— Jimmy Smits

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

— Chita Rivera

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

— Tom Stoppard

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

— Ethel Merman

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

— Alan Jay Lerner

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

— Asghar Farhadi

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

— Marina Abramovic