Closest Quote by Kate Arrington

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you…

— Cate Blanchett

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know.…

— Pearl Cleage

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

— Harvey Fierstein

I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full commitment of…

— Jim Sarbh

It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're…

— Forest Whitaker

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't…

— Estelle Parsons

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at…

— John Guare

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

— Clive Rowe

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the…

— John Leguizamo

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender