Theater Quotes

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.