Top 1200 Movie Theatre Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

Theatre is my first love, simply because I started out with theatre.

I definitely used to dream of sitting in the movie theatre watching the 'Star Wars' credits come up knowing I was part of one of those films.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

Mo-cap work is less technical than you'd expect. Once you have it all set up you're free to do the whole scene in one take rather than doing a lot of different shots and different takes like you do in a movie. You've got that one go at it and you've got a lot of freedom. You can really express yourself - more like doing theatre than doing a movie.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie star is really exciting.

There was a saying going around the theatre: It's a train, and you can jump on at any point whether you're a lover of musical theatre or a lover of theatre or a lover of hip-hop or a lover of history - there was a way to jump on the train.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

I've come from theatre and you have different productions of a text in theatre. It's not unusual.

After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater and sorting it all out. Then I applied to graduate school and got accepted, so I started pursuing my master's in theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.

If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.

I did watch 'Ee Varsham Sakshiga' with fans in the theatre and I saw them enjoying every bit of the movie. The critics would have had their own opinions, though.

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

After joining theatre, I started thinking that acting in films was not half as challenging as theatre.

In Maharashtra, films are not as big as theatre. I think theatre is deeply rooted in this state's culture.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

I was into theatre in school and college with theatre personality Barry John, who has also trained Shah Rukh Khan. Then I joined the Elite modeling agency - they have different courses including grooming, modeling and theatre workshop. I was selected for modeling.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.

The theatre starts every night at half past seven, and I like the rhythm of going to the theatre, parking the car, going to the stage door; I've grown up with all of that. I'd love to do more theatre - I mean, I shouldn't be telling the world that I can't remember lines any more, but I find it more and more difficult, so I don't know.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

Above all, I am a theatre person, from the National School of Drama, I want to promote theatre.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

Shyambazar evokes a strong sense of nostalgia in me. There's not a theatre in that area where I haven't watched a movie. I also have fond memories of going grocery-shopping at Grey Street with my grandparents.

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.