Theater Quotes · Page 30

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

— Anonymous

When I go into a theater, I'm very excited to turn off my phone. But then, of course, I get anxiety.

— Phillipa Soo

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

— Fiona Shaw

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

— James Marsters

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

— Ivan Reitman

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

— Brian Cox

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car…

— Danny Bonaduce

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is…

— Karyn Kusama

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing…

— Michael Steger

When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about…

— Corey Stoll

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have.…

— Laurie Metcalf

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three…

— Stellan Skarsgard

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in…

— Luke Evans

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to…

— Pedro Pascal

I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to…

— Heather Hemmens

It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there,…

— John Buffalo Mailer

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to…

— Tony Kushner

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when…

— Jacki Weaver

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules…

— Tony Kushner

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to…

— Ava DuVernay

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any…

— Al Lopez

I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.

— Marianne Elliott

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

— Tallulah Bankhead

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

— Christopher Guest

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

— Mary-Louise Parker

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

— Woody Allen

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

— Scott Speedman

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater…

— Demian Bichir

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

— Zachary Levi

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

— George S. Kaufman

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

— Mason Cooley

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.

— Michael Lomenda

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

— Thomas Middleditch

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green