Theater Quotes · Page 47

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

— Kristen Stewart

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

— Jason Reitman

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

— Bob the Drag Queen

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

— Morgan Freeman

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

— Chad Lowe

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with…

— James Gunn

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen,…

— Arthur Miller

I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a…

— Mary-Louise Parker

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

— James Thurber

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film.…

— Richard Sammel

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was…

— John Eisenhower

I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working…

— Kyle Parker

Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for…

— Andrew Dice Clay

I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very…

— Joel Grey

No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now,…

— Antonio Banderas

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why…

— Andrew Lau

In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids…

— Michael Jai White

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all…

— Charles Lloyd

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!…

— Christian Louboutin

It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to…

— Cristin Milioti

“Today's theater-goer must live in dread of walking into a theater and discovering that some classic work has been given a modernized,…

— Reduced Shakespeare Company

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do…

— Ayad Akhtar

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

— Joshua Jackson

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

— Paul Rudd

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

— Lady Gaga

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

— Dan Fogler

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

— Judy Blume

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

— Edward Albee

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

— Jerry Herman

I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.

— Grey DeLisle

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

— Scott Caan

I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.

— Bonobo

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

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

— Jesse Ventura

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