Best Theater Lines
1711 Theater quotes by 1191 unique authors
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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
— Andrew Rannells
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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent…
— Alton Brown
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I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to…
— Susan Sullivan
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I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to…
— Eric Stoltz
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The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors…
— Eric Stoltz
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I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.…
— Steve Zahn
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I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
— Sara Paxton
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Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you…
— Chris Cooper
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Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what…
— Joe Morton
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Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look…
— Fay Wray
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall.…
— Quincy Jones
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The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
— Ben Vereen
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled…
— John Lithgow
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I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is…
— Stephen Moyer
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It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music,…
— James Dean
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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the…
— James Dean
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
— Ted Shackelford
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Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why…
— William Petersen
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The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.
— Dean Cain
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I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and…
— Greer Garson
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Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it…
— Aaron Tveit
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You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as…
— David Morrissey
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I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might…
— Geoffrey Rush
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I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even…
— Michael York
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I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
— Jerry Hall
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