Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

...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.

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 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.

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

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

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

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.

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

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

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

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

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

I've always loved film more than theater, and film may be more closely related to making a record because you have that ability to go in and do your work and have no judgment around it, and feel honest. Then, much later, it's presented to people. But in theater, people come backstage after a performance and you're about to do the same play again the next night, and people say, "Well, I didn't really believe that emotion" or whatever. It's really hard for me, I like to be closed up and just do the work.

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

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

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

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

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I want to do #‎ stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, "There's nothing like live theater, blah blah," but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

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