Theater Quotes · Page 29

A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.

— Michael O'Keefe

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

— Andre Holland

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall…

— Scoot McNairy

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

— Dave Malloy

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

— Elizabeth Olsen

In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.

— Jamey Sheridan

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

— Augusto Boal

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

— Paul Feig

I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in…

— Robert Kazinsky

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay…

— Bryan Batt

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream.…

— Bette Midler

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

— Lester Bangs

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty…

— Austin Peck

I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem…

— Denis O'Hare

“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy…

— Eugene O'Neill

I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting…

— Bill Pullman

Comedy people are always present because they're always looking for the funniest version of whatever the line is. Sometimes theater people, where…

— Chris O'Dowd

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside…

— Mare Winningham

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of…

— Abhishek Bachchan

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people…

— Stephen Daldry

It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People…

— Paul Rudd

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on…

— Michael Nyqvist

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love…

— Sharon Creech

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

— Sam Mendes

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

— Howard Rheingold

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

— Demian Bichir

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

— Christian Camargo

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

— Leslie Jordan

Growing up, the dream was to be on Broadway. I always loved theater.

— Lauren Worsham

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

— Jonathan Banks

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

— LaTanya Richardson

I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

— Casey Affleck

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

— Arthur Miller

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

— Oliver Stone

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

— Tcheky Karyo