Theater Quotes

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

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.

Some people have the meat-market mentality, so you've got to take your shirt off because it will bring girls into the theater. When that comes up on set, I challenge it.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.