Theater Quotes · Page 32

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

— Dakin Matthews

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

— Luke Evans

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

— George C. Wolfe

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

— Sam Mendes

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

— Eleanora Duse

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

— Brian Tee

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

— Amy Schumer

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

— Ben Whishaw

As soon as I leave the world [of the show], I want to turn around and come back. That's how real it…

— Victoria Clark

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting…

— Sam Mendes

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why…

— Randy Rainbow

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia,…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take…

— Judy Norton

I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a…

— Becca Tobin

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work.…

— Brian Dennehy

Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to…

— Eli Roth

Yeah, this is what I think was a quality of movies, is you're in a group of people. You're sharing something with…

— Paul Reubens

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped…

— Timothy Simons

I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never…

— Robert Buckley

I remember sitting in the theater watching 'Bridesmaids,' and I'm doubled over laughing, and then I'm crying in the same movie. It's…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given…

— Roger Rees

The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational…

— Wes Craven

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her…

— Terry Pratchett

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

— Cherrie Moraga

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

— Betty Buckley

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

I wanted to be a Broadway actress; I was always interested in music and theater.

— Randi Zuckerberg

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

— David Hockney

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

— Norm MacDonald

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

— Abby Brammell

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

— Jason Ralph

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

— Sarah Silverman

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

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

— Mark O'Donnell