Top 1200 Theater Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.
I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.
It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.
I was trained in classic theater, so I love me some good old crying.
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life.
I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.
I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.
I love being on stage. I went into theater at five. I realized I really had something here.
As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.
I think I was 10 when I saw my first R-rated movie, 'Stand by Me,' in the theater.
I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.
I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.
I was very much a character actress. But I've never stopped doing theater.
I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.
I've been looking for a Broadway opportunity ever since I stopped doing theater.
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me.
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.
I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.
I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.
This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.
We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.
Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.
I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.
I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.
