Theater Quotes

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy proposals.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

I'm going to try and focus on doing more theater things. I come from that background. I honestly feel so comfortable being on stage, it's really weird. It's one of those things I love to do.

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.