Theater Quotes

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

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

I'm theater trained.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

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.