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Theater Quotes by Minnie Maddern Fiske
- People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad…
- This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
- ...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very…
- Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.
- It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world…
- Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding…
More Theater Quotes
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one… — Amy Adams
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
- I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes… — Lewis Black
- Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great… — Lewis Black
- I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. — Orlando Bloom
- You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because,… — Michael Bloomberg