Theater Quotes

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.

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

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.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

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.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.

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.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

I love working in the theater.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.