Theater Quotes · Page 46

“The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful”

— Ben Platt

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

— Lena Olin

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

— Courtney B. Vance

“Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.”

— Michelle Knudsen

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie…

— Lucy Fisher

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

— Patricia Heaton

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

— Jim Parsons

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

— Zosia Mamet

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays…

— Geoffrey Rush

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of…

— Bernard Berenson

The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You…

— Marge Piercy

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or…

— Matt Bomer

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a…

— Sutton Foster

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once…

— Joe Taslim

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and…

— David Schwimmer

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the…

— Michael Haneke

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are…

— Diane Setterfield

We both [me and Eugene Levy] come from the same place. Eugene did most of his work in SCTV and ensemble situations.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

“Magnus had caught it gingerly, half expecting it to blow in his face. The Teacher chuckled. "Don't worry, it can't do anything…

— Susan Wiggs

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's…

— Glenda Jackson

Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're…

— Finn Wittrock

For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood,…

— Agnivesh

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and…

— Franka Potente

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I…

— Sam Rockwell

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

— Harold Prince

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

— Bill Pullman

In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

— Frances McDormand

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an…

— Christine and the Queens

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

— Carice van Houten

I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.

— Laurence Fishburne

I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I…

— Richard Linklater

Well, theater is kind of my life blood. Not kind of - it is my life blood.

— Christopher Jackson

I love being on stage. I went into theater at five. I realized I really had something here.

— Madelaine Petsch

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater…

— Adam Baldwin

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

— Natalie Zea

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

— Marina Abramovic