Theater Quotes

The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed.

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

[Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern-day theater day canon, and one of the most boring!

I was never interested in anything, particularly. I didn't get through school. I was a layabout. So, I started working at a theater to earn some money, as a part-time job.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it's as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

When the companies started making made-for-TV movies, people thought it was a fluke. Who would watch that? Because it's in your TV screen and not in a theater. Remember that?

Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything