Theater Quotes · Page 48

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

— Cameron Mackintosh

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

— Mike Portnoy

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

— Megan Hilty

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

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of…

— Carl Weathers

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

— David Morse

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

— Austin Scarlett

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

— Marlo Thomas

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to…

— Richard Foreman

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute…

— Clive Owen

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people…

— Elizabeth Taylor

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York…

— Bill Dixon

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

— Barack Obama

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was…

— Colin Callender

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort…

— Martha Plimpton

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that.…

— Reggie Watts

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,…

— David Hume

Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People…

— RuPaul

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn…

— Viola Spolin

I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond…

— Stephen Colbert

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me…

— Skylar Astin

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

— Tatiana Maslany

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

— Katie Finneran

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

— Shanola Hampton

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

— Hannah Simone

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

— Aaron Tveit

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 had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

— Vincente Minnelli

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

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

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

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

— Paul Wesley

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

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

— John Lithgow