Theater Quotes · Page 37

I studied theater at UCLA and wrote plays during my time there.

— Mikey Day

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

— Kit Harington

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall

A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.

— Michael O'Keefe

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

— Andre Holland

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall…

— Scoot McNairy

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

— Elizabeth Olsen

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

— Dave Malloy

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

— Nick Blaemire

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down…

— Eli Wallach

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing…

— Moss Hart

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live…

— Billy Magnussen

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared…

— Ian Mckellen

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a…

— Marsha Norman

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is…

— Michael Caine

I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your…

— Carrie Coon

It was never my dream to be famous. I didn’t start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater…

— Denzel Washington

For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the…

— Dave Barry

I used to make fun of those actors who talked about the theater as their temple and their place of worship. I'm…

— Peter Scolari

My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and…

— Christopher Nolan

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one…

— Stephen King

Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called…

— Nancy Allen

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are…

— Theodore Dreiser

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children…

— Adrien Brody

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

— Elayne Boosler

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

— Anna Camp

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

— Fiona Shaw

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

— Roger Rees

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

— Joel Hodgson

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

— Brendan Sexton III

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

— Annie Parisse

I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

— James Lapine

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

— Moss Hart

“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

I find a lot of joy from legitimate theater. But Jinkx is my passion project.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

— Janine Turner

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

— Michael Gambon