Theater Quotes

• I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old.

  

  Stephen Wallem
  • Theater
  • Part
  • Who I Am

• My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.

  

  Ed Gass-Donnelly
  • Dad
  • Theater
  • Switched

• I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

  

  Michael York
  • Knows
  • Happens
  • Cinema

• I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

  

  Ana de la Reguera
  • Movies
  • Theater
  • Harder

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

  

  Sophie McShera
  • Theater

• I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Persons
  • Theater

• 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 believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Audience
  • Laughter
  • I Believe

• I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Career
  • Idea
  • Theater

• I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Actors

• My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Different
  • Character
  • Accents

• I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Audience
  • Communication
  • Concerts

• 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

• Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • People
  • Writing
  • Challenge

• Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Actor
  • Theater
  • Thrilling

• I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.

  

  Stephen Furst
  • Job
  • Teenager
  • 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 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

• Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!

  

  Nina Arianda
  • Film
  • New
  • Theater

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

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Need
  • I Believe
  • Save

• 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

• The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

  

  Hallie Flanagan
  • People
  • Theater

• Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Theater

• The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mistake
  • Don't Believe
  • Tragedies

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