Top 1200 Theater Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.

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

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

I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.

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

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

I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.

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

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with friends, so I do have some nights off.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

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

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.

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

I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.

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

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

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

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

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

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

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

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

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

The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the theater, and what goes on in the theater has nothing to do with special effects.

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

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

It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again." And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.

The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

I really do love the theater, and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

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

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

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

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

I don't really believe that all theater needs to be filmed - for some things, the special part of live theater is that it exists and then it's gone.

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

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.

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

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

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

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

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.