Theater Quotes · Page 45

I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

— Harland Williams

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

— Paul Wesley

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

— Stella Adler

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

— Robin Meyers

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

— John Lithgow

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging,…

— Kevin Chamberlin

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond…

— Carlisle Floyd

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked…

— Corey Stoll

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was…

— Eric McCormack

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet…

— David Lambert

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy.…

— Patrick Wilson

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater,…

— Tony Kushner

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a…

— Dana Carvey

When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in…

— Edward Norton

“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How…

— S.M. Stevens

In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1…

— Umberto Boccioni

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets…

— Bertolt Brecht

I'd knocked on doors when I'd gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find…

— Shoshannah Stern

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's…

— Dylan O'Brien

I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so…

— Julianna Margulies

“You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.”

— Rebecca Murphy

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

— Katie Finneran

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

— Marlo Thomas

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

— Shanola Hampton

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want…

— Aaron Tveit

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

— Harold Clurman

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

— Jesse Ventura

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

— Cameron Mackintosh

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot…

— Steven Knight

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

— Megan Hilty

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

— Mike Portnoy