Theater Quotes · Page 31

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

— Julia Stiles

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

— Ralph Fiennes

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

— Michael Ritchie

“I didn't ask for your résumé,theater freak. You people love to talk, don't you.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.

— Stephen Amell

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

— Paul Dano

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

— Michael Moore

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or…

— Timothy Dalton

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not…

— Sidney Poitier

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a…

— Jennifer Damiano

I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came…

— Annie Potts

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well…

— John Steinbeck

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less…

— Ben Brantley

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means…

— Christopher Walken

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative…

— Scott Bakula

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to…

— Helen Hunt

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv…

— Maya Angelou

It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money…

— Gore Vidal

Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front…

— Christopher Abbott

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like…

— Emile Hirsch

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership…

— Dianna Agron

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,…

— Jill Scott

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

— Lily Rabe

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

— Faith Prince

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

— Harvey Fierstein

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like…

— Anonymous

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

— Mike Colter

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

— Meital Dohan

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

— Werner Herzog

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

— Robert Knepper

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

— James Broughton

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on…

— Dashiell Hammett

If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.

— Lucas Hedges

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

— Laura Slade Wiggins

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

— Estelle Parsons