Theater Quotes

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.

I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."