Theater Quotes

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

My film career was always to support my theater career.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

I love theater.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.