Top 1200 Theater Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

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

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in the back of the theater can hear you and understand you. So there's a lot of articulation and a lot of voice in theater that really just isn't necessary when it comes to dealing with the camera.

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

I was shy and didn't believe in myself, and I only bloomed when I was in theater during rehearsal. And that's how my family found out that that's where I needed to be, because that's where I felt the most comfortable.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

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

I would love to do stuff on camera. That's what I want to do. It took me a really long time to feel confident as an actor. I think, also, because there's a weird stigma about musical theater where we treat the men who do musical theater differently than we treat the women in musical theater.

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

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

I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background.

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.

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

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

My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.

In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.

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

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

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

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

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

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

I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

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

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

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

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're a writer or an actor or a director - in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.

Until I have a family or a mortgage, I'm trying to keep my lifestyle simple and my apartment affordable so that I can continue to focus on theater. That's as good as it gets for me.

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

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

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

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I loved working in Pittsburgh - the theater there is amazing, so many different types of theater.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

I did a lot of children's theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood.

I feel like any actor that has started out in the theater, the theater will always be their home.