Theater Quotes

• The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

  

  Scott Haze
  • People
  • Community
  • Connected

• Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Good
  • Criticism
  • Theater

• Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Ideas
  • Story
  • Movies

• Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

  

  Su-chin Pak
  • Fake
  • Emotions
  • Theater

• Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

  

  Nick Blaemire
  • People
  • Different
  • Vision

• I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

  

  Mireille Enos
  • Comedy
  • Stuff
  • Havens

• In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Worry
  • Audience
  • Pieces

• I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.

  

  Neil Flynn
  • College
  • Theater
  • Impression

• There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

  

  Austin Scarlett
  • Theater
  • Wedding
  • Correlation

• We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.

  

  Bob Gaudio
  • Music
  • Book
  • History

• Theater is certainly - is my first love, if I had to pick.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Theater
  • Pick
  • First Love

• I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

  

  Jonathan Raymond
  • Violence
  • Theater
  • Delightful

• I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • School
  • Art
  • Football

• I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Shows
  • Theater
  • Attend

• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Actresses

• My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Theater

• I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Audience
  • Stage
  • Theater

• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • Country
  • Library
  • Museums

• It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Athlete
  • Prove
  • Helped

• I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Training

• The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.

  

  Eva Le Gallienne
  • Money
  • No Love
  • Syndicate

• We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Need
  • I Believe
  • Save

• I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • Actors
  • Musical
  • Ears

• I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.

  

  Sophie McShera
  • Theater

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