Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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

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

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 theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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?

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

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

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

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

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 planning on going to Yale to theater school.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

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

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

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

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

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

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

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

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

My first wife was a theater person.