Top 1200 Theater Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.
I never imagined that I would have a successful solo career, let alone one in musical theater.
I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.
I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.
I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.
I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.
I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.
I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.
I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.
I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.
You know, I started my theater career in Los Angeles as a song-and-dance man.
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
I actually cried during 'Titanic.' It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.
I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.
It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.
I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.
We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.
My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
It's nice to have people tell you they leave a movie theater without any problems.
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.
This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time
My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.
I love when people know me from things other than Dream Theater.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.
When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.
A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.
The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.
Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
