Theater Quotes

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

The theater is magical and addictive.

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.