It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust… — M. C. Gainey Copy Share Image
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must… — Konstantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called… — Vanessa Bayer Copy Share Image
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced,… — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would… — David Morse Copy Share Image
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to… — David Ives Copy Share Image
When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same.… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I kind of prefer bouncing back and forth between theater and films. It's like having the best of both worlds, both very… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to… — Cher Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
There's something magical about making films. But theater, where it all started for me, makes you better at the craft of storytelling. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -… — Michael Cerveris Copy Share Image
