Theater Quotes

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Going to the theater, spending tons of money, people are losing money doing that. I'm really interested in my kinds of movies being seen as many people as possible on a TV.

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

I've always been entranced with theater.

I come from a traditional theater background.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything. You actually had to go, and you just sat there all day.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.