Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

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.

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 first wife was a theater person.

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.

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

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

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.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

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

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

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

Thank God for the theater.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.