Theater Quotes

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

I long to get back into theater.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

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.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

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.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

I come from straight theater.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

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.