100+ Theater Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "BWW Interviews: Bryan Batt Talks Broadway, MAD MEN, and His Cabaret Act BATT ON A HOT TIN ROOF". Interview with Jeff Davis, www.broadwayworld.com. September 2, 2013.

topic: Children, Thinking, Theater

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

- Bryan Batt

source: "Bryan Batt, ‘Mad Men’ Actor, Talks 54 Below Cabaret Show And Living A ‘Happy, Open Life’" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

topic: Musical, Theater, Musical Theater

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

- Carey Mulligan

topic: Play, Theater, Said

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

- Carly Simon

topic: Musical, Jazz, Theater

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

- Casey Affleck

source: "Roger Ebert still has questions for Casey Affleck". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.

topic: Trying, Deceiving, Theater

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

- Charles Ludlam

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Theater

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Theater

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Kids, Theater, Backgrounds

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

- Cheyenne Jackson

topic: Home, Rooms, Theater, Home Away From Home

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

- Chita Rivera

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Alive, Theater, Audience

I love life. I love the live theater.

- Chita Rivera

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Love Life, I Love Life, Theater, Live Theater

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

topic: Actors, Theater

I grew up doing musical theater.

- Chris Colfer

topic: Musical, Grew Up, Theater, Musical Theater

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

- Christopher Guest

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Way, Theater

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

- Clarke Peters

topic: Exercise, Long, Theater

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

- Connie Britton

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Degrees, Theater, Backgrounds

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

- Cornelia Funke

source: Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Book, Firsts, Theater

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

- Cristin Milioti

source: "Cristin Milioti Walks On". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

topic: Doe, Film, Theater

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

- Cynthia Nixon

topic: Play, Sitting, Theater

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

- Damian Lewis

topic: Done, Theater

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

- Damien Hirst

source: Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

topic: Art, Kind, Theater

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

- Dan Fogler

topic: Grew, Grew Up, Theater

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

- Darren Aronofsky

topic: Mind, Watches, Theater

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

- Darren Criss

topic: Mean, Someday, Theater

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

- David Anders

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Missing, Theater

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

- David Cook

source: "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

topic: Song, Emotional, Theater

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

- David Duchovny

topic: Musical, Succeed, Theater, Musical Theater

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

- David Geffen

topic: Jobs, Theater, Shows

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

- David Hasselhoff

topic: Blessed, Talent, Theater

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

- David Morrissey

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Want, Theater

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

- David Selby

topic: College, Class, Theater, Advisors

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

- Dennis Christopher

topic: Done, Proud, Theater

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom

- Desson Thomson

source: "Adam Sandler, breeding 'Anger'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2003.

topic: Boredom, Theater, Projectors

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

- Diablo Cody

topic: Thinking, Sitting, Theater

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

- Diane Paulus

topic: Way, Theater

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

- Diane Paulus

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Innovation, Musical, Theater, Musical Theater

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

- Dianne Wiest

topic: Money, Pressure, Theater

I love working in the theater.

- Didi Conn

topic: Theater

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

- Dorothy McGuire

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Moments, Break, Theater

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

- Eartha Kitt

topic: Television, Theater, Live Theater

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

- Eartha Kitt

topic: Thinking, Theater

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

- Eddie Cahill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Television, Merit, Theater, Live Theater, Flexing

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

- Edith Hamilton

topic: Play, People, Theater

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

- Edward Albee

topic: Lazy, Theater

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

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Clubs, Theater, Masons, Jackie

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

- Elia Kazan

topic: New Life, Theater

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

- Elizabeth Olsen

topic: Differences, Film, Theater

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

- Elizabeth Olsen

topic: Firsts, Comedy, Theater

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

- Ellen Terry

source: Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

topic: Men, Theater, Dead Man

I'd love to do some theater.

- Emily VanCamp

topic: Theater

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

- Erika Slezak

topic: Might, Kind, Theater

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

- Estelle

topic: Theater, Time Off

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

- Estelle Parsons

topic: America, Theater, Precarious

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

- Estelle Parsons

topic: Theater

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

- Ethel Barrymore

topic: Acting, Actors, Theater, Luminous

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

- Ethel Merman

topic: Halloween, Today, Theater

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

- Faith Prince

topic: Ensemble, Pieces, Theater

Everything is theater.

- Fernando Pessoa

source: Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.263, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Theater

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

- Finn Wittrock

topic: Real, Goal, Theater

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

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Bored, Theater

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

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Theater, Performing, Stills, Cork

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

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Way, Theater, Repetition

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Theatre, Sometimes, Theater

Theater dates very quickly.

- Fiona Shaw

topic: Theater

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

- Francois Truffaut

topic: Morning, School, Theater

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

- Frank Oz

topic: Want, Directors, Theater

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

- Frank Rich

topic: Grew Up, Theater, Grew, Loving Deeply

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Tasks, Poet, Theater

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

- Gary Sinise

topic: Supportive, Veteran, Theater, Steppenwolf

I am essential to the theater,

- George Sanders

topic: Essentials, Theater

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

- George Takei

topic: Block, Needs, Theater, Hunk

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

- Gerard Butler

topic: Theater, Glasgow

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

- Gwyneth Paltrow

topic: Film, Theater, Adrenaline, Live Performance, Adrenaline Rush

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

- Haley Joel Osment

topic: Sleep, Would Be, Theater

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

- Harold Prince

topic: Missing, Musical, Theater, Musical Theater, New Work

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

- Harold Prince

topic: Directors, Theater, Producers

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

- Harold Prince

topic: Truthful, Tradition, Theater

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

- Harold Ramis

topic: Laughing, Theater, Testing

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

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Heart, Way, Theater

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

- Hill Harper

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: College, Acting, Theater

The theater was my mother and my father.

- Ingrid Bergman

topic: Mother, Father, Theater

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

- Irrfan Khan

topic: Theater, Melodrama

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

- Ivan Reitman

topic: Dvds, Different, Theater

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

- Jacki Weaver

topic: Delight, Theater, Function

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

- James Belushi

topic: Chicago, Just Being, Theater

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

- James Berardinelli

topic: Action, Thrillers, Theater

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

- James Broughton

topic: Cinema, Theater, Verses

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

- James Randi

topic: Let Down, Theater, Feels

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

- Jane Krakowski

source: "Jane Krakowski Takes Manhattan". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. June 24, 2003.

topic: Reactions, Theater, Live Theater

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

- Jane Lynch

topic: Events, Theater

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

- Jason Earles

source: Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2009.

topic: Math, My Favorite, Theater, Favorite Subject

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

- Jason Earles

source: Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2019.

topic: Theater, Multiple

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

- Jason Reitman

topic: Ass, Theater, Enjoy

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

- Jason Statham

topic: People, Bored, Theater

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

- Jeff Daniels

topic: Teeth, Film, Theater

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

- Jeffrey Wright

topic: Generations, Actors, Theater

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

- Jeremy Irons

topic: Training, Aptitude, Theater

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

- Jeremy Irons

topic: People, Theater

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

- Jeremy Piven

topic: Philosophy, Space, Theater, Theater Family

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

- Jerry Hall

topic: Art, Fans, Theater

I have done a lot of theater.

- Jerry Hall

topic: Done, Theater

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

- Jerry Hall

topic: Character, Theater, Grows

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

- Jerry Rubin

source: Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: New York, Cities, Theater

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

- Jill Clayburgh

topic: Sitting, Rooms, Theater, Dressing Rooms, Sitting Around

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

- Joe Mantello

topic: Would Be, Gone, Theater

With my background, I came out of the theater.

- Joe Morton

topic: Theater, Backgrounds

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

- Joel Hodgson

topic: Mystery, Influence, Theater, Postmodern

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

- Joel Hodgson

topic: Mystery, Theater, Shows

I'm afraid to do theater now.

- John Corbett

topic: Theater

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

- John Lithgow

topic: Successful, Ends, Theater

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.

- John Madden

topic: Atmosphere, Theater, Audience

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

- John Malkovich

topic: Ephemeral, Theater

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

- John Wilmot

source: "Fictional character: Rochester". "The Libertine", www.imdb.com. 2004.

topic: Wish, Theater, Feels, Libertine

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

- Judi Dench

topic: Theater

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

- Julie Taymor

source: "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

topic: Film, Abstract, Theater

What I don't have in theater is editing.

- Julie Taymor

topic: Editing, Theater

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

- Juliet Mills

topic: Training, Theater

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

- Julius Charles Hare

topic: Psychology, Actors, Theater

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

- Justin Bartha

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Theater, Wanted

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

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Night, Acting, Theater

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.

- Katharine Whitehorn

topic: Parent, Reason, Theater

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

- Katie Finneran

topic: Needs, Break, Theater

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.

- Katie Finneran

topic: People, Community, Theater

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

- Ken Curtis

topic: New York, Singers, Theater

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

- Kenneth Tynan

source: Kenneth Tynan (1964). “Tynan on theatre”

topic: Years, Sacred, Theater, Inarticulate

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

- Kristen Johnston

topic: New York, Years, Theater

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

- Kurt Fuller

topic: Theater

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

- Lana Parrilla

topic: White, Musical, Theater, White Christmas

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

- Laura Bell Bundy

topic: Sides, Theater

I've always loved film more than theater.

- Laura Dern

topic: Film, Theater

I just love, I love, I love movies.

- Laura Dern

topic: Movie Love, Theater, Movie Theater

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

- Laura Marano

topic: Theater, Performing, Feels

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Real, Theater, Stakes

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

- Laurie Metcalf

topic: Acting, Theater, Practicals

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

- Laurie Metcalf

topic: World, Theater

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

- Les Claypool

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Basketball, Sound, Theater

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

- Lillian Hellman

topic: Fields, Brilliant, Theater

The only thing that matters is the theater!

- Lily Rabe

topic: Matter, Theater, Things That Matter, Had A Great Time, Managing Time

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

- Logan Lerman

topic: Home, Movie Love, Theater

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

- Logan Lerman

topic: Theater

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

- Loni Anderson

topic: Actresses, Theater, Whole Life

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

- Luchino Visconti

topic: Theater, Meetings, Melodrama

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

- Ludivine Sagnier

source: Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

topic: Actresses, Theater

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

- Luke Kirby

source: "Luke Kirby’s Character Curveball". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2012.

topic: Yeah, Theater

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

- Maddie Hasson

source: "Discovery: Maddie Hasson". Interview with Frankie Mathieson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2014.

topic: Theater

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

- Maggie Siff

topic: Hollywood, Actors, Theater

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: Musical, World, Theater, Sondheim, Musical Theater

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

- Mandy Patinkin

topic: Singing, Thrill, Theater, Yiddish

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

- Marcia Gay Harden

topic: Rehearsal, Theater, Periods

Everything in life is theater.

- Margo Jones

topic: Drama, Life Is, Theater

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

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Theater, Wilson, Performances

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

- Marisa Tomei

topic: Acting, Kind, Theater

I come from a traditional theater background.

- Mark Ruffalo

topic: Surfing, Theater, Backgrounds

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

- Martha Graham

topic: Nouns, Verbs, Theater

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

- Mary Martin

source: "Mary Martin : Broadway Legend" by Ronald L. Davis, (p. 180), 2008.

topic: Important, Done, Theater

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

- Matthew Lillard

source: "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

topic: People, Theater, Term

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

- Matthew Lillard

topic: Television, Film, Theater

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

- Matthew Morrison

topic: Imagination, Theater, Best Place

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