Theater Quotes · Page 33

In New York theater, you always talk about wanting a great ensemble of actors.

— Christopher Lloyd

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

— Jason Ralph

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

— Jasper Fforde

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

— Aaron Sorkin

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

— John Glover

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

— Samuel Larsen

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

— Kevin Richardson

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

— Bill Dedman

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't…

— Jessie Mueller

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me…

— Cathy Rigby

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character…

— John Mahoney

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that…

— Olivia Thirlby

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which…

— Valorie Curry

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

— Greta Gerwig

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema,…

— Joel Edgerton

People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people…

— Daniel Gillies

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked…

— Annie Baker

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies.…

— Marlon Wayans

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present…

— Terence McKenna

Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with…

— Mark Jenkins

What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they…

— Natalie Zea

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

— Drew Lachey

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

— Liv Ullmann

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

— Colman Domingo

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

— Dorothy McGuire

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

— Vanessa Redgrave

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

— Craig Bierko

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

— Elaine Stritch

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

— Ingmar Bergman

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

— Jesse L. Martin

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

— Patrick J. Adams

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

— Bebe Neuwirth

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

— John Hurt