Theater Quotes

• 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
  • School
  • Theater

• It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Sometimes
  • Television
  • Horseshoes

• 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

• 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

• The theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

  

  Eva Le Gallienne
  • Theater
  • Museum
  • Public Library

• My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.

  

  Michael Schultz
  • Game
  • Reputation
  • Direct

• 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
  • Start
  • Young
  • Theater

• I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • I Love
  • Films
  • Theater

• Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Theater
  • Colors
  • Palette

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

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Actor
  • Theater
  • Thrilling

• We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

  

  Steve Kazee
  • Art
  • Feel
  • Theater

• New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Young
  • Theater
  • Experimentation

• The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

  

  Steven Berkoff
  • Team
  • Actor
  • Theater

• My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Work
  • Education
  • Audience

• You're always striving for a place of Zen. Or a flow state, where you kind of transcend reality and you go to the other place. It's when everything is in sync, and everyone is connecting with one another. Everything is going perfectly. You lose yourself. It's the ultimate form of meditation where it's an out - of - body experience. Afterward you come back to Earth and you're like, 'What just happened? We just did something awesome!' It's this energy in the room when you know you're nailing it and you know everyone else is feeling it too. That's why theater is so awesome.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Reality
  • Lose
  • Meditation

• I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

  

  Josh Young
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Theater

• I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Long
  • Film
  • Actors

• I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

  

  Tino Sehgal
  • Film
  • Entertainment
  • Connected

• 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've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Theater
  • Experiences
  • Influenced

• 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
  • Wonder
  • Actors
  • Afraid

• The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Particular
  • Audiences
  • Nearly

• I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Theater
  • Possibilities
  • Broaden

• Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

  

  Bette Davis
  • I Think
  • Theater
  • Writers

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