Theater Quotes · Page 39

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch…

— Darren Aronofsky

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

— Anurag Kashyap

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

— Cate Blanchett

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

— Augusto Boal

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

— Lily Rabe

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

— Reggie Watts

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything,…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I…

— Harriet Tubman

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and…

— Joan Fontaine

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I…

— Jacki Weaver

I was pre-med in college, and so since a lot of people take a year off before they go to med school,…

— Frankie Grande

A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and…

— Jello Biafra

I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the…

— Michael Stahl-David

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't…

— Luke Evans

My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently,…

— Robyn

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of…

— Osamu Dazai

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a…

— Daniel Bruhl

One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's…

— Carey Mulligan

I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a…

— James Dean

My aesthetic is not a Disney aesthetic at all, but when I met with the wonderful producers at Disney, they weren't looking…

— Julie Taymor

I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every…

— Michael Shannon

Doing a play is very different from doing films or TV. In theatre, the medium lends itself to allowing you to have…

— Krysten Ritter

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

— Blair Underwood

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then…

— Cillian Murphy

I think for me, I just love that trust you have with theater and your ensemble and people you are working with.

— Tommy Dorfman

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

— Richard Lamm

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

— David Bryan

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

— Beanie Feldstein

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

— Roger Stone

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

— Adam Driver

You know, I started my theater career in Los Angeles as a song-and-dance man.

— Ken Berry

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

— Neil Tennant

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

— Khandi Alexander

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

— Christian Borle

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long

I feel like any actor that has started out in the theater, the theater will always be their home.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

— Ato Essandoh

I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.

— Marielle Heller