Theater Quotes

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

Theater helps people keep sane.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.