Theater Quotes · Page 49

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

— Robin Meyers

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

— Stella Adler

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

— Rebecca Murphy

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

— Condola Rashad

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

— Johnny Galecki

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

— Javier Bardem

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

— Michael Caine

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

— Alfred Molina

Even with Dream Theater, we track in a big studio and everything. But when it comes to doing leads, I don't really…

— John Petrucci

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past…

— Tom Courtenay

I really enjoyed being in the community of theater makers at university. So I started doing some performance as well and eventually,…

— Emma D'Arcy

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in…

— Mickey Gilley

When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so…

— Eiza Gonzalez

Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters…

— Catherine Hardwicke

When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has…

— Maureen Johnson

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark…

— Austin Butler

You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the…

— Paul Haggis

I have this set-up at my house where I have one big movie theater screen that's 9 ft. by 16 ft. Then,…

— John Madden

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but…

— Sophia Bush

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely…

— Dallas Roberts

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,…

— Tim DeKay

I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if…

— Jonathan Groff

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

— Richard Simmons

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

— Angela Robinson

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

— Machine Gun Kelly

“Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.”

— Gaetano Pesche

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

— Jason Robards

I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

— Jason Earles

When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to…

— Tony Todd

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

— Natasha Tsakos

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

— Amanda Righetti

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

— Kate Fleetwood

That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

— Juliet Mills

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

— Adam Driver