Theater Quotes

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.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.