Theater Quotes

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

I grew up doing musical theater.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I was really lucky for the friends that I had and loved every minute of it. I don't think I was a geek, but I loved the studies and we had a really good theater company at our school.

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

The theater should always be a safe space.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

It's important that a film is loud and I hope many people agree. You should be inside of a film when you go into a theater. It should surround you, envelope you, so you can live inside a dream.