Theater Quotes · Page 26

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

— Grace Cavalieri

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

— Gary Sinise

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.

— Judd Nelson

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

— Hermann Goring

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

— Charley Pride

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

— Ellen Terry

I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.

— Corbin Bernsen

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through…

— Dwight Yoakam

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my…

— Alicia Keys

I came from the theater. It takes a team. We need everyone. It's not just No. 1 on the call sheet. I…

— Katy Mixon

I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come…

— John Lithgow

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I…

— Jenna Fischer

I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have…

— Jean Rosenthal

Moonlight is my theater group. They are my home. I feel greatly appreciated there. That type of satisfaction, money can't buy.

— George Perez

Barry Harris had a club called Jazz Cultural Theater and there were sessions there on a regular basis. I remember being there…

— Jon Gordon

I had started doing small community theater shows in my hometown of Cleveland. I did a lot of shows there before I…

— Isabela Moner

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy…

— David Zucker

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend…

— Greg Grunberg

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and…

— F. Sionil Jose

I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to…

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm from San Diego. My parents weren't involved in theater, but my mother encouraged my interest in it. She bought me the…

— Casey Nicholaw

Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's…

— Johnny Galecki

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

— Jean Kerr

The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill

— Proverb

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

— Maggie Siff

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

— Zeenat Aman

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

— Vincent Schiavelli

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

— Dan Glickman

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

— John Webster

The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out…

— Peter Cincotti

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

— Robert Knepper

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act…

— Neil Patrick Harris

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to…

— Brian Baumgartner

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

— Bryan Batt

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

— Carroll O'Connor

In the '80s, 'Dreamgirls' was our 'Hamilton.' It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.

— Angela Robinson

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

— Steve Kazee