Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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 really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

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

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

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'm very resistant to most forms of 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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 was planning on going to Yale to theater school.