Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

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

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

My first wife was a theater person.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

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.

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

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.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

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.

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

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

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

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

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

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

Thank God for the theater.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

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

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

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.