Theater Quotes · Page 50

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

— Willem Dafoe

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

— Jonathan Pryce

I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out.

— Nia DaCosta

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

— Sara Ramirez

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

— Jason Robards

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

— Miguel Ferrer

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

— George MacKay

I'd taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never…

— Reid Scott

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you…

— Jeremy Piven

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally…

— Zachary Knighton

I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally…

— Allen Covert

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the…

— Ralph Fiennes

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained…

— Alan Rickman

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain…

— Christine Baranski

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as…

— Samira Wiley

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others…

— Anonymous

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of…

— Michael Fassbender

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the…

— Katie Lowes

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater…

— Tatiana Maslany

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is…

— Arthur Miller

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text…

— Don DeLillo

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor…

— Jim Parrack

I always think that the difference between film and theater is like the difference between masturbation and making love. Because, in film,…

— Susan Sarandon

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

— Pythagoras

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

— Robert Brustein

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

— Robert Edmond Jones

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

— Michael Rady

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

— Anonymous

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left…

— Cary Elwes

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

— Ed Asner

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my…

— Winona Ryder

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

— Marina Abramovic

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

— Fiona Shaw

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg