Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Everything in life is theater.

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

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Good drama must be drastic.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

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

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

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

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

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.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

I am essential to the theater.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

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

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I come from a traditional theater background.

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

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

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.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.