Theater Quotes

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.

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

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."

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 love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

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.

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.

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

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts - in my case theater, play-writing - is all about community.

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.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

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.

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

Guard the secret theater of your heart. See nothing there that you do not want to see happen in reality.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.