Theater Quotes · Page 21

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

— Les Aspin

I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.

— Ben Sprecher

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

— Rachael MacFarlane

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

— Estelle Parsons

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

— Amy Landecker

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

— Todd Haynes

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

— Idina Menzel

I feel like any actor that has started out in the theater, the theater will always be their home.

— Annaleigh Ashford

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally…

— Jennifer Stone

I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than…

— Katie Leclerc

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement…

— George Santayana

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and…

— Douglas Booth

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

— Stephen Moyer

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you…

— Dave Abrams

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…

— Kelsey Grammer

There are all kinds of films being made but I feel watching a film in a theatre is quite a family experience…

— Kiku Sharda

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang

I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that…

— Joel Kinnaman

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of…

— Bruce Springsteen

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was…

— John Petrucci

If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off…

— Emma Stone

Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one…

— Andrew Rannells

Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies,…

— Quentin Tarantino

“I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share…

— Thornton Wilder

I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.

— Marielle Heller

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

— Ato Essandoh

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

— John Guare

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

— Mamie Gummer

“You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.”

— Elly Griffiths

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

— Antoinette Perry

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my…

— Diane Lane

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

— Beanie Feldstein

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

— Roger Stone

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

— Adam Driver

You know, I started my theater career in Los Angeles as a song-and-dance man.

— Ken Berry

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

— Neil Tennant

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

— Christian Borle

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

— Khandi Alexander

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

— Blair Underwood