Theater Quotes · Page 28

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

— Rhetta Hughes

The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.

— Kirstin Maldonado

You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something

— Kenneth Haigh

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

— Oliver Stone

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

— Martha Plimpton

I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

— James Lapine

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

— Moss Hart

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked…

— Leslie Easterbrook

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to…

— Hamish Linklater

Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue…

— Tony Vincent

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down…

— Adolph Green

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

— Michael Arden

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent…

— William Petersen

Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone…

— Jack Lemmon

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or…

— Steve Zahn

... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the…

— Emma Goldman

I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those…

— Ed Speleers

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with…

— Lisa Randall

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps…

— Angela Thirkell

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or…

— Quincy Jones

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You…

— Garrison Keillor

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a…

— Gerald Early

2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen…

— Robert Reed

“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

I find a lot of joy from legitimate theater. But Jinkx is my passion project.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

— Janine Turner

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

— Elayne Boosler

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

— Anna Camp

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

— Fiona Shaw

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

— Roger Rees

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

— Joel Hodgson

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

— Brendan Sexton III

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

— Neil Patrick Harris

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

— Annie Parisse

I studied theater at UCLA and wrote plays during my time there.

— Mikey Day

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

— Kit Harington

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall