Theater Quotes

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.