Theater Quotes · Page 41

I've been looking for a Broadway opportunity ever since I stopped doing theater.

— Melissa Benoist

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

— Kevin Hart

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

— Michael Urie

2112' basically set the course for my musical career and how I approached Dream Theater.

— John Petrucci

I went to school in the 1970s, and there was a lot of physical theater in those days.

— Bill Pullman

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot…

— Stephen Lang

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater, I got into work…

— Scott Haze

I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.

— Jenni Olson

I've done a lot of theater in my time, and in rehearsals, you're like, 'Well, we find it funny,' but until you…

— Phil Dunster

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew…

— April Parker Jones

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a…

— Sigourney Weaver

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate…

— Jessica Lucas

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and…

— Mercedes McCambridge

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one…

— Roberta Smith

I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every…

— Austin Peck

I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential…

— Alex O'Loughlin

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend…

— Tom Hiddleston

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I…

— Nina Arianda

I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater…

— Ishmael Reed

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and…

— Jenna Elfman

Some of the things that happened at theater camp, you would tell somebody and they would never believe. But if you're a…

— Molly Gordon

Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,…

— Susan Sontag

I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I…

— Michael Che

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

— Graeme Murphy

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

— Pauline Collins

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

— Robin Tunney

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

— Desson Thomson

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

— David Binder

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

— Sigourney Weaver

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the…

— James Broughton

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

— Joseph Fiennes

One often doesn't often get to do the same part, over and over again, unless you do a run in the theater.

— Ioan Gruffudd

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

— Victoria Mahoney

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

— Rick James

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the…

— Condola Rashad

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

— Ana Gasteyer

I started out in the theater when I was a young actor, so I've always tried to move from one medium to…

— Tony Shalhoub

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

— Carl Weathers