I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them… — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater -… — Jacqueline Emerson Copy Share Image
The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
“He's wrong--high school isn't a pyramid with all the power clustered in a chosen few at the top--it's more of a movie… — Tiffany Schmidt Copy Share Image
I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place… — Olivia Cooke Copy Share Image
I really only did theater in school in college. I did summer stock a couple of times in the summer, and plays… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which… — Stark Sands Copy Share Image
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The… — Maureen Stapleton Copy Share Image
We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like… — Kel Mitchell Copy Share Image
First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream… — Jill Hennessy Copy Share Image
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
