Theater Quotes · Page 24

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

— Angela Bassett

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

— Michael Moore

The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

— Charles Ludlam

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

— Tim Roth

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

— Miguel Gomes

I started out in the theater when I was a young actor, so I've always tried to move from one medium to…

— Tony Shalhoub

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

— Carl Weathers

I love the theater, and I just don't love television like that.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would…

— Odeya Rush

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more…

— Athol Fugard

Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let…

— Lexi Alexander

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I…

— Shanley Caswell

On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's…

— Cristin Milioti

I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors…

— Zachary Quinto

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that…

— Gillian Jacobs

I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind…

— Rekha Sharma

With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . .…

— Rose McGowan

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's…

— Brian Cox

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in…

— James Dean

I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child…

— Mary Zimmerman

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break…

— Strom Thurmond

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views…

— Max Lucado

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of…

— Joshua Malina

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on…

— James McAvoy

In the theater you can take your time and allow for people's artistry to surface.

— Amanda Bearse

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

— George C. Wolfe

One often doesn't often get to do the same part, over and over again, unless you do a run in the theater.

— Ioan Gruffudd

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

— Victoria Mahoney

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

— Rick James

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

— Ana Gasteyer

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the…

— Condola Rashad

I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.

— Jenni Olson

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

— Graeme Murphy

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

— Pauline Collins

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

— Robin Tunney

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

— David Binder

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

— Desson Thomson

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

— Sigourney Weaver

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the…

— James Broughton