Theater Quotes · Page 19

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

— Edward Albee

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

— Jerry Herman

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

— Judy Blume

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

— Dan Fogler

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets…

— Mireille Enos

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to…

— Michael Biehn

Theater actually took time to pique my interest. It just wasn't a part of my upbringing. I don't have anyone in the…

— Betty Gabriel

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was…

— Sophia Bush

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that…

— Roger Rees

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to…

— Kerry Washington

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears -…

— Travis Knight

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and…

— Michael Shannon

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It…

— Joel Grey

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't…

— Richard Dreyfuss

I don't come from an artistic family, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the…

— Geneva Carr

I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my…

— Donald Sutherland

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

— Hugh Hardy

Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many…

— James Mattis

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the…

— Mark Doty

I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.

— Bonobo

I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.

— Grey DeLisle

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

— Scott Caan

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do…

— Ayad Akhtar

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

— Chad Lowe

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

— Lady Gaga

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

— Paul Rudd

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

— Joshua Jackson

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot…

— Steven Knight

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

— Megan Hilty

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

— Mike Portnoy

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

— Austin Scarlett

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

— David Morse

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of…

— Carl Weathers