Theater Quotes
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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
Rebecca Hall
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theater going in Australia.
Cate Blanchett
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The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
Sarah Paulson
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In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
Michael Musto
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The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
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I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.
Nonso Anozie
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
Terrence McNally
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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
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If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.
Bill Burr
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When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
Stephen McCauley
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
Emily Mann
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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
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The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
Eric Stoltz
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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
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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
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
Meredith Monk
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I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.
Minka Kelly
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Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
Treat Williams
