Theater Quotes · Page 43

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles.

— LaChanze

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare…

— Jimmy Smits

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

— Chita Rivera

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

— Tom Stoppard

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

— Ethel Merman

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

— Alan Jay Lerner

The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because…

— Cary Elwes

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in…

— Wallace Shawn

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has…

— Susan Sarandon

“I had a dream about you last night... I think I've realized why drive-in theatres are going extinct; you can't yell at…

— Marshall Ramsay

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your…

— Kerry Bishe

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not…

— Asghar Farhadi

For movies, you need to come up with a movie that is only possible to screen in the theater, which legitimizes the…

— Fedor Bondarchuk

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely…

— Henry James

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way…

— Joe Russo

My dad worked at a mechanical factory for 35 years. I grew up in Union City, NJ. My mother is a social…

— Bobby Cannavale

At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with…

— Luigi Russolo

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles.…

— Stephen Sondheim

If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the…

— Jay Mohr

I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in…

— Ed O'Neill

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because…

— Edward Albee

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

— Asghar Farhadi

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

— Miguel Ferrer

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

— Sara Ramirez

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

— Jason Robards

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

— George MacKay

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

— Pythagoras

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left…

— Cary Elwes

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

— Ed Asner

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

— Michael Rady

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

— Anonymous

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

— Robert Edmond Jones

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my…

— Winona Ryder

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

— Kate Fleetwood

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos