Theater Quotes · Page 42

I love the theater, and I just don't love television like that.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

In the theater you can take your time and allow for people's artistry to surface.

— Amanda Bearse

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

— George C. Wolfe

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

— Jason Statham

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

— Angela Bassett

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

— Michael Moore

The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

— Charles Ludlam

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

— Tim Roth

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but…

— John Malkovich

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of…

— Anonymous

I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors…

— Chris Messina

There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts…

— Robert Schenkkan

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell…

— Ethan Slater

I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting…

— David Schwimmer

After my father passed away in 1989, I fell pretty hard for theater as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon. Before…

— Ty Burrell

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love…

— George Lucas

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single…

— David Copperfield

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It…

— John Barth

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that…

— Michel Foucault

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me.…

— Aileen Quinn

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love…

— Alfred Molina

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra…

— Anna Kendrick

I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped…

— Tavi Gevinson

There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

— Miguel Gomes

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

— Edith Hamilton

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

— Patrick Stewart

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

— Jim Carrey

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

— BD Wong

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

— Trey Anastasio

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

— Italia Ricci

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

— David Boreanaz

I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.

— Adam Driver

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

— Jimmy Smits

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

— Marina Abramovic

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw