Theater Quotes

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.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

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.

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.