Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

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

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

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

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

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

My first wife was a theater person.

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

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

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.