Theater Quotes

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln – by sending people to the theater.

Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing stand-up, it's inclusive.

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.