I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but… — Stacy Keach Copy Share Image
I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work,… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of… — Treat Williams Copy Share Image
Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, "We're all here to undergo a communion, to find… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had… — Fiona Gubelmann Copy Share Image
And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical… — Heather Dubrow Copy Share Image
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
“To quote a Shakespearean cliché, repeated to death because it is so stubbornly true: “All the world’s a stage.” Work is theater.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God… — Jimmy Pardo Copy Share Image
Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image