Theater Quotes · Page 40

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

— John Guare

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

— Mamie Gummer

“You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.”

— Elly Griffiths

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

— Antoinette Perry

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my…

— Diane Lane

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

— Les Aspin

I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.

— Ben Sprecher

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

— Estelle Parsons

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I…

— Lin Shaye

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would…

— Sandra Cisneros

The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort…

— Alison Gopnik

The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on…

— Taye Diggs

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want…

— Treat Williams

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like…

— Tracie Thoms

I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that…

— Cherrelle

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It…

— John Michael Higgins

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…

— Laurence Sterne

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of…

— Darren Criss

I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air…

— Steve Hely

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there…

— Sean O'Casey

The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,…

— Robert Kazinsky

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill…

— Hugh Jackman

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be…

— Vanessa Kirby

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All…

— Ray Bradbury

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

— Rachael MacFarlane

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

— Amy Landecker

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

— Todd Haynes

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

— Idina Menzel

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

— Darren Criss

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

— Zeljko Ivanek

“Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation”

— Anne Bogart

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

— George C. Wolfe

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

— John Larroquette

Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.

— Audra McDonald

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

— Ridley Scott

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

— Aidan Turner

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

— Michael Caine

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

— Ralph Fiennes

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

I went to Georgetown University, and majored in theater - then I moved to Los Angeles.

— Kelly Rohrbach