Theater Quotes

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.