I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience.… — Brianna Brown Copy Share Image
In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors,… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
“The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car… — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have.… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing… — Michael Steger Copy Share Image
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue… — Tony Vincent Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
