Belief Quote by Marian Seldes

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

— Harvey Fierstein

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

— Ron Perlman

If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film's premise is…

— Gulzar

When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.

— Adam Rapp

My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

— Teju Cole

The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what…

— Steven Berkoff

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

— Morgan Freeman

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God,…

— Kate Arrington

I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of…

— Karyn Kusama

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