Theater Quotes

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.

I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.