Theater Quotes · Page 23

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

— Cate Blanchett

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot…

— Zeljko Ivanek

I was very much a character actress. But I've never stopped doing theater.

— Mariette Hartley

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

— Robert Holman

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

— Michael Gambon

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having…

— John Noble

My training was in theater, and I was asked to be a journalist.

— Mariette Hartley

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee…

— Orson Welles

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw…

— David Oyelowo

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that…

— Trevor Nunn

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but…

— Amanda Schull

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to…

— Tom Stoppard

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad…

— Ice Cube

I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect…

— Jeff Garlin

I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in…

— Ioan Gruffudd

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of…

— Adam Shankman

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school.…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes…

— Frank Zappa

As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant…

— Louise Glück

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My…

— Tom Hooper

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the…

— William Mapother

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In…

— Carolyn Jones

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

— Ray Bradbury

“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”

— Constantin S Stanislavski

My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

— Robert Greene

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

— Tim Robbins

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

— Daveed Diggs

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

— Edith Hamilton

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

— Patrick Stewart

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

— Jim Carrey

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

— BD Wong

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

— Trey Anastasio

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

— David Boreanaz

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

— Italia Ricci

I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.

— Adam Driver

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

— Jimmy Smits

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

— Jason Statham