Theater Quotes · Page 20

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

— Jesse Ventura

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

— Cameron Mackintosh

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

— Harold Clurman

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

— Katie Finneran

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because…

— Norm MacDonald

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all…

— William Petersen

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from…

— Christopher Reeve

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie…

— Matthew Lillard

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I grew up going to see my classmates in theater perform, always wanting to be a part of that because it felt…

— Melissa Barrera

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you…

— David Lynch

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood.…

— Tony Goldwyn

Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I…

— Cillian Murphy

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as…

— Anonymous

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

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of…

— John Logan

You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical…

— Dylan Moran

Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten…

— Robert Greene

Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people…

— Judd Apatow

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that…

— Baron Vaughn

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

— Marlo Thomas

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

— Shanola Hampton

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want…

— Aaron Tveit

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

— Robin Meyers

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

— John Lithgow

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

“You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.”

— Rebecca Murphy

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

— Vincente Minnelli

I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

— Harland Williams

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

— Paul Wesley

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske