Theater Quotes

• 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

• Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Work
  • Theater

• And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Actor
  • I Think
  • Theater

• 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

• A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.

  

  Michael O'Keefe
  • Journey
  • Because
  • Theater

• I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

  

  Stephen Moyer
  • World
  • Change
  • Theater

• The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Beautiful
  • Lying
  • Theater

• I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!

  

  Michael Cerveris
  • Actors
  • Answers
  • Roles

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

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Young
  • Theater
  • Experimentation

• 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 love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Ideas
  • Feels
  • Audience

• I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • Feel
  • Theater
  • Good Points

• I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • School
  • College
  • 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

• I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

  

  Michelle Branch
  • Position
  • Musical
  • Broadway

• People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • People
  • Painting
  • Literature

• 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

• I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

  

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  • Interest
  • Stuff
  • Dramatic

• 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

• It's as if these dogs are putting on theater.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Theater
  • Dogs

• You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Theater
  • Entertaining movies

• 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

• Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Stephen Lang
  • Commitment
  • Lot
  • Takes

• In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Trying
  • Deceived
  • Deceiving

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