Theater famous quotes
05-12-2025
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
-- Adam Driver -
You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
-- Adolph Green -
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
-- Al Pacino -
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
-- Alan Rickman -
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
-- Alan Rickman -
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Theatrical work means too much work or none.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
-- Amy Schumer -
Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
-- Andrew Rannells -
I love doing both theater and television.
-- Andrew Rannells -
I don't think about going back to the theater.
-- Angela Lansbury -
I want to do #‎ stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live #‎ theater , blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
-- Anna Kendrick -
I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.
-- Antoinette Perry -
I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
-- Armand Assante -
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
-- Arthur Miller -
When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
-- Asghar Farhadi -
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
-- Asghar Farhadi -
And I found the theater, and I found my home.
-- Audra McDonald -
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
-- August Wilson -
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
-- Augusto Boal -
Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.
-- Austin Peck -
The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
-- Barack Obama -
Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
-- Beah Richards -
Id love to go back and do theater. Theres nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
-- Bellamy Young -
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.
-- Ben Fountain -
I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
-- Beth Broderick -
Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
-- Bill Pullman -
There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.
-- Bjorn Ulvaeus -
Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
-- Bob Balaban -
I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.
-- Bobby Moynihan -
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
-- Brett Ratner -
I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
-- Brett Ratner -
My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
-- Brion James -
You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.
-- Bryan Batt -
It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
-- Bryan Batt -
I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.
-- Carey Mulligan -
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
-- Carly Simon -
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
-- Casey Affleck -
The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.
-- Charles Ludlam -
There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
-- Cheyenne Jackson -
I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.
-- Chita Rivera -
I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.
-- Chiwetel Ejiofor -
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
-- Christopher Guest -
I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
-- Clarke Peters -
My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.
-- Connie Britton -
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
-- Cornelia Funke -
There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.
-- Cristin Milioti -
I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
-- Damian Lewis -
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
-- Darren Criss -
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.
-- David Anders -
There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
-- David Cook -
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.
-- David Geffen -
The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.
-- David Hasselhoff -
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 a person.
-- David Morrissey -
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.
-- David Selby -
I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.
-- Dennis Christopher -
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom
-- Desson Thomson -
And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
-- Diablo Cody -
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
-- Diane Paulus -
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
-- Diane Paulus -
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
-- Dianne Wiest -
I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.
-- Dorothy McGuire -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
-- Eartha Kitt -
I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
-- Eartha Kitt -
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
-- Eddie Cahill -
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
-- Edith Hamilton -
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
-- Edward Albee -
I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
-- Elayne Boosler -
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
-- Elia Kazan -
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.
-- Ellen Terry -
I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.
-- Erika Slezak -
I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
-- Estelle -
At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
-- Estelle Parsons -
Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
-- Estelle Parsons -
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
-- Ethel Barrymore -
I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
-- Ethel Merman -
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
-- Faith Prince
