Theater Quotes

• I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Training
  • Actor
  • Improvisation

• I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Play
  • Theater

• I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Way
  • Theater
  • Behave

• To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

  

  Kate Arrington
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Acting
  • Theater
  • Clubs

• 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

• My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.

  

  Joseph Gatt
  • Character
  • Relationships
  • Theater

• I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Theater

• Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.

  

  Eva Green
  • Control
  • Film
  • Anxious

• Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Theater

• Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

  

  Julia Bacha
  • Audience
  • Theater
  • Violent

• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Duty
  • Loyalty
  • Convictions

• 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

• This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Play
  • Theater
  • Sing

• I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Soldier
  • Theater

• Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • People
  • Real
  • Space

• Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Theater
  • Becoming
  • Supposed

• What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Beautiful
  • Dance
  • Stage

• I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Performances
  • Paid
  • Dues

• Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Fit

• Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Temple

• I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Film
  • Theater
  • Don't Think

• 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

• Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Alive
  • Theater

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