Quotes about Theater

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. Votes: 6

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. Votes: 6

I just love, I love, I love movies. Votes: 4

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. Votes: 4

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror. Votes: 4

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Votes: 4

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. Votes: 4

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing. Votes: 4

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. Votes: 4

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. Votes: 4

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. Votes: 4

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. Votes: 4

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama. Votes: 4

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. Votes: 4

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts. Votes: 4

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. Votes: 4

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. Votes: 4

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man Votes: 4

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. Votes: 4

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful. Votes: 4

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. Votes: 4

Theater dates very quickly. Votes: 3

Theater helps people keep sane. Votes: 3

Theater feeds my heart and soul. Votes: 3

Theater has always been terrifying to me. Votes: 3

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. Votes: 3

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself. Votes: 3

Theater has always been most important to my psyche. Votes: 3

Theater has been my way of learning about everything. Votes: 3

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. Votes: 3

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine. Votes: 3

Theater is like going to the gym for actors. Votes: 3

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. Votes: 3

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning. Votes: 3

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk. Votes: 3

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. Votes: 3

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street. Votes: 3

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen. Votes: 3

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. Votes: 3

I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films. Votes: 3

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me. Votes: 3

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling. Votes: 3

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. Votes: 3

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. Votes: 3

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't. Votes: 3

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films. Votes: 3

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. Votes: 3

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really. Votes: 3

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification. Votes: 3

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Votes: 3

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure. Votes: 3

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity. Votes: 3

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences. Votes: 3

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Votes: 3

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. Votes: 3

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience. Votes: 3

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. Votes: 3

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. Votes: 3

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way. Votes: 3

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act. Votes: 3

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Votes: 3

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. Votes: 3

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. Votes: 3

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser Votes: 3

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. Votes: 3

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea. Votes: 3

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before. Votes: 3

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. Votes: 3

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom. Votes: 3

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra. Votes: 3

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes. Votes: 3

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing. Votes: 3

-a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.The Butcher's Theater Votes: 3

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long. Votes: 3

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. Votes: 3

The truth is I love musical theater and always have. Votes: 2

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. Votes: 2

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. Votes: 2

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble. Votes: 2

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic. Votes: 2

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. Votes: 2

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. Votes: 2

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. Votes: 2

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world. Votes: 2

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. Votes: 2

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. Votes: 2

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. Votes: 2

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40. Votes: 2

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater. Votes: 2

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet. Votes: 2

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone. Votes: 2

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. Votes: 2

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. Votes: 2

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. Votes: 2

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. Votes: 2

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. Votes: 2

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. Votes: 2

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people. Votes: 2

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. Votes: 2

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character. Votes: 2

Everything is theater. Votes: 0

Dinner theater is anti-culture. Votes: 0

Thank God for the theater. Votes: 0

Everything in life is theater. Votes: 0

I come from straight theater. Votes: 0

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater. Votes: 0

Parsi theater was known for melodrama. Votes: 0

I've always been entranced with theater. Votes: 0

The theater is magical and addictive. Votes: 0

I grew up doing musical theater. Votes: 0

Boxing has become America's tragic theater. Votes: 0

I'm afraid to do theater now. Votes: 0

I am essential to the theater, Votes: 0

I love working in the theater. Votes: 0

I'd love to do some theater. Votes: 0

Radio was theater of the mind. Votes: 0

I have a passion to do theater. Votes: 0

I love doing both theater and television. Votes: 0

I've always loved film more than theater. Votes: 0

I long to get back into theater. Votes: 0

I come from a traditional theater background. Votes: 0

I have done a lot of theater. Votes: 0

Musical theater is one of my passions. Votes: 0

I love working in New York theater. Votes: 0

My first wife was a theater person. Votes: 0

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater. Votes: 0

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. Votes: 0

The greatest sound in the theater is silence. Votes: 0

New York is obviously the capital of theater. Votes: 0

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater. Votes: 0

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. Votes: 0

I've found that musical theater is my passion. Votes: 0

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater. Votes: 0

There were centuries when civilization had no theater. Votes: 0

The only thing that matters is the theater! Votes: 0

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater. Votes: 0

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen. Votes: 0

I love theater. I grew up doing theater. Votes: 0

I was definitely a choir and theater geek. Votes: 0

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. Votes: 0

I love life. I love the live theater. Votes: 0

The only thing I won't do is theater. Votes: 0

The first perk of theater is the girls. Votes: 0

A theater without beer is just a museum Votes: 0

What I don't have in theater is editing. Votes: 0

The theater should always be a safe space. Votes: 0

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. Votes: 0

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater. Votes: 0

The theater was my mother and my father. Votes: 0

We all have an escape. Mine was theater. Votes: 0

Journalism as theater is what TV news is. Votes: 0

I started a theater company when I was 17. Votes: 0

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater. Votes: 0

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed. Votes: 0

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. Votes: 0

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance. Votes: 0

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real. Votes: 0

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst. Votes: 0

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens. Votes: 0

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story Votes: 0

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser. Votes: 0

Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff. Votes: 0

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me. Votes: 0

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. Votes: 0

The theater is the thing I love doing most. Votes: 0

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor. Votes: 0

For me, art is always a kind of theater. Votes: 0

I can't take the theater side out of myself. Votes: 0

I love doing theater. That's where my home is. Votes: 0

With my background, I came out of the theater. Votes: 0

You can't stay away from the theater too long. Votes: 0

I don't think about going back to the theater. Votes: 0

As a kid, I had a background in theater. Votes: 0

Work in the theater is more fun than fun. Votes: 0

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously. Votes: 0

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death! Votes: 0

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net. Votes: 0

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no. Votes: 0

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater. Votes: 0

I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad. Votes: 0

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. Votes: 0

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater. Votes: 0

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical. Votes: 0

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Votes: 0

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion. Votes: 0

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. Votes: 0

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums. Votes: 0

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom Votes: 0

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating. Votes: 0

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission. Votes: 0

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really. Votes: 0

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater. Votes: 0

And I found the theater, and I found my home. Votes: 0

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. Votes: 0

The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling. Votes: 0

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater. Votes: 0

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. Votes: 0

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. Votes: 0

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater. Votes: 0

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty. Votes: 0

I jump at any chance to go back into theater. Votes: 0

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. Votes: 0

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time. Votes: 0

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater. Votes: 0

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. Votes: 0

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart. Votes: 0

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time. Votes: 0

I think theater is a core need of a community. Votes: 0

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career. Votes: 0

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's. Votes: 0

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging. Votes: 0

If you want to see theater you go to New York. Votes: 0

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. Votes: 0

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically. Votes: 0

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease. Votes: 0

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology. Votes: 0

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit. Votes: 0

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life Votes: 0

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet. Votes: 0

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star. Votes: 0

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York. Votes: 0

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me. Votes: 0

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is. Votes: 0

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all. Votes: 0

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. Votes: 0

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. Votes: 0

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. Votes: 0

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater. Votes: 0

I think theater communities in cities can form really strong foundations. Votes: 0

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along. Votes: 0

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program. Votes: 0

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater. Votes: 0

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house. Votes: 0

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater. Votes: 0

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. Votes: 0

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself. Votes: 0

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you. Votes: 0

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night. Votes: 0

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. Votes: 0

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now. Votes: 0

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational. Votes: 0

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. Votes: 0

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. Votes: 0

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. Votes: 0

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. Votes: 0

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages. Votes: 0

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater. Votes: 0

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition. Votes: 0

Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life Votes: 0

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. Votes: 0

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater. Votes: 0

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people. Votes: 0

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater. Votes: 0

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. Votes: 0

I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes. Votes: 0

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody. Votes: 0

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater. Votes: 0

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college. Votes: 0

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time. Votes: 0

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater. Votes: 0

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life. Votes: 0

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago. Votes: 0

I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever. Votes: 0

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter. Votes: 0

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place. Votes: 0

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done Votes: 0

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater. Votes: 0

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people. Votes: 0

I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater. Votes: 0

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority. Votes: 0

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life. Votes: 0

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not. Votes: 0

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. Votes: 0

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave. Votes: 0

Thats one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life. Votes: 0

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. Votes: 0

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it. Votes: 0

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. Votes: 0

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. Votes: 0

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater. Votes: 0

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel. Votes: 0

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical. Votes: 0

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays." Votes: 0

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays. Votes: 0

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s. Votes: 0

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater. Votes: 0

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions Votes: 0

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. Votes: 0

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater. Votes: 0

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. Votes: 0

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television. Votes: 0

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart, Votes: 0

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater. Votes: 0

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress. Votes: 0

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater. Votes: 0

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart. Votes: 0

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! Votes: 0

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way." Votes: 0

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination. Votes: 0

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater. Votes: 0

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater. Votes: 0

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater. Votes: 0

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds. Votes: 0

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater. Votes: 0

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless Votes: 0

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there. Votes: 0

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are. Votes: 0

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work. Votes: 0

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater. Votes: 0

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater. Votes: 0

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning. Votes: 0

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it. Votes: 0

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Votes: 0

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film. Votes: 0

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. Votes: 0

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts. Votes: 0

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions. Votes: 0

I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom. Votes: 0

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of. Votes: 0

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end. Votes: 0

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. Votes: 0

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater. Votes: 0

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. Votes: 0

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be. Votes: 0

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. Votes: 0

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major. Votes: 0

The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told. Votes: 0

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater. Votes: 0

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater. Votes: 0

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate. Votes: 0

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. Votes: 0

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it. Votes: 0

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing. Votes: 0

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life. Votes: 0

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment. Votes: 0

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater. Votes: 0

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. Votes: 0

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. Votes: 0

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater. Votes: 0

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film. Votes: 0

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play. Votes: 0

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress. Votes: 0

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. Votes: 0

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry. Votes: 0

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating! Votes: 0

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. Votes: 0

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater. Votes: 0

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked. Votes: 0

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. Votes: 0

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater. Votes: 0

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs. Votes: 0

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. Votes: 0

At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment. Votes: 0

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. Votes: 0

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big. Votes: 0

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing. Votes: 0

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared. Votes: 0

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! Votes: 0

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember. Votes: 0

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater. Votes: 0

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14. Votes: 0

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. Votes: 0

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it. Votes: 0

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City. Votes: 0

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time. Votes: 0

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood? Votes: 0

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. Votes: 0

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you. Votes: 0

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked. Votes: 0

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut. Votes: 0

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. Votes: 0

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat. Votes: 0

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play. Votes: 0

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child. Votes: 0

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it. Votes: 0

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! Votes: 0

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. Votes: 0

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. Votes: 0

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. Votes: 0

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time. Votes: 0

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television. Votes: 0

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. Votes: 0

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film. Votes: 0

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments. Votes: 0

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater. Votes: 0

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks! Votes: 0

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. Votes: 0

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater. Votes: 0

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it. Votes: 0

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. Votes: 0

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get. Votes: 0

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play. Votes: 0

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life. Votes: 0

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. Votes: 0

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. Votes: 0

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. Votes: 0

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday. Votes: 0

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. Votes: 0

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. Votes: 0

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal. Votes: 0

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater Votes: 0

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club. Votes: 0

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays. Votes: 0

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film. Votes: 0

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play. Votes: 0

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me. Votes: 0

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could. Votes: 0

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York. Votes: 0

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time. Votes: 0

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. Votes: 0

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it. Votes: 0

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. Votes: 0

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience. Votes: 0

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. Votes: 0

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. Votes: 0

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away. Votes: 0

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information. Votes: 0

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. Votes: 0

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience. Votes: 0

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more. Votes: 0

One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card. Votes: 0

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater. Votes: 0

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater. Votes: 0

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television. Votes: 0

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be. Votes: 0

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. Votes: 0

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. Votes: 0

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night. Votes: 0

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out. Votes: 0

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. Votes: 0

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. Votes: 0

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off. Votes: 0

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. Votes: 0

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage. Votes: 0

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. Votes: 0

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater. Votes: 0

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. Votes: 0

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get. Votes: 0

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays. Votes: 0

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. Votes: 0

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night. Votes: 0

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater. Votes: 0

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track. Votes: 0

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way. Votes: 0

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it. Votes: 0

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment. Votes: 0

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' Votes: 0

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will. Votes: 0

I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater. Votes: 0

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. Votes: 0

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all. Votes: 0

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic. Votes: 0

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie. Votes: 0

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. Votes: 0

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer. Votes: 0

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater. Votes: 0

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' Votes: 0

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from. Votes: 0

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. Votes: 0

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Votes: 0

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater. Votes: 0

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company. Votes: 0

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager. Votes: 0

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet. Votes: 0

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. Votes: 0

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business. Votes: 0

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. Votes: 0

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take. Votes: 0

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. Votes: 0

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half. Votes: 0

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it. Votes: 0

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God. Votes: 0

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y. Votes: 0

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album. Votes: 0

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. Votes: 0

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read. Votes: 0

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films. Votes: 0

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally. Votes: 0

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive. Votes: 0

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk. Votes: 0

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it. Votes: 0

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question. Votes: 0

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. Votes: 0

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater. Votes: 0

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week. Votes: 0

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater. Votes: 0

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life. Votes: 0

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere. Votes: 0

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. Votes: 0

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater. Votes: 0

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. Votes: 0

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. Votes: 0

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass. Votes: 0

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn. Votes: 0

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater. Votes: 0

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time Votes: 0