Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Good drama must be drastic.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

I am essential to the theater.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.