Theater Quotes

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I'd love to do some theater.

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

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

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.