Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

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

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

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

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

I have done a lot of theater.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I long to get back into theater.

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.

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

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

I love life. I love the live theater.

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

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.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

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

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

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

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.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

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.

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 musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

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

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