Theater Quotes

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.

I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four characters in the same play.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.