Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

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.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

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'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.

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

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

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

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

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

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

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.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

...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.

It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

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

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.