Theater Quotes

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

The first perk of theater is the girls.

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.

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.

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

I've always loved film more than theater.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.