Theater Quotes · Page 36

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

— Casey Affleck

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

— Arthur Miller

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

— Oliver Stone

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

— Tcheky Karyo

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

I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long…

— Sophie Okonedo

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind…

— Shelley Winters

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not…

— Edward Albee

I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts.…

— Ruth Westheimer

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my…

— Maurice Jarre

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work…

— John Malkovich

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning…

— Linda Lavin

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

— Eric Carle

Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot…

— Rick Riordan

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because…

— Diane Paulus

For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising…

— Adolf Hitler

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it.…

— Colin Morgan

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the…

— Adam Driver

I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way…

— Philip Glass

There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless…

— Laurence Sterne

If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful…

— Peter Stormare

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

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

— LaTanya Richardson

I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

— Augusto Boal

In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.

— Jamey Sheridan

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

— Paul Feig

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

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

— Sam Mendes

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

— Demian Bichir

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

— Howard Rheingold

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

— Christian Camargo

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

— Leslie Jordan

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

— Jonathan Banks

Growing up, the dream was to be on Broadway. I always loved theater.

— Lauren Worsham