Theater Quotes · Page 34

In the '80s, 'Dreamgirls' was our 'Hamilton.' It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.

— Angela Robinson

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

— Steve Kazee

“Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.—”

— William Shakespeare

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

— Harold Prince

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

— Jessica Hagedorn

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

— Dan Glickman

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

— John Webster

The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out…

— Peter Cincotti

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I…

— Max von Sydow

I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at the end…

— Joan Hickson

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater…

— Audra McDonald

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it's as if you were watching a…

— Ron Perlman

The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it's a fair…

— Joel Grey

Theater is a wonderful medium - I love theater myself, and there are exceptions to every rule - but the thing that…

— Vince Gilligan

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by…

— Eugene Jarecki

I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that…

— Spalding Gray

Part of why I wanted to make 'Past Lives' as a movie is because I know what's required in theater. The thing…

— Celine Song

The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and…

— Tim Kang

As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in…

— Carson Grant

I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters,…

— Cass Gilbert

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or…

— Charles M. Schulz

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be…

— Eric Bentley

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

— Robert Knepper

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to…

— Brian Baumgartner

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

— Bryan Batt

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

— Ellen Terry

I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.

— Corbin Bernsen

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

— Jean Kerr

The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill

— Proverb

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

— Maggie Siff

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

— Zeenat Aman

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

— Vincent Schiavelli

“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”

— Abbie Hoffman

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

— James Corden

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

— Maurice Willson Disher

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

— Grace Cavalieri