Best 414 quotes in «theater quotes» category

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

Everything in life is theater.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

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

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Good drama must be drastic.

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

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

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I am essential to the theater.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 come from a traditional theater background.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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