Theater Quotes

• The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Whole

• I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

  

  Luchino Visconti
  • Life
  • Meetings
  • Melodrama

• In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Character
  • Fire
  • Audience

• The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

  

  Jean Gabin
  • Deep
  • Theater
  • Too Deep

• I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • New
  • Theater

• I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Money
  • Language
  • Radio

• I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • She
  • Mother
  • Reading

• I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Alive
  • Theater
  • Street

• People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • People
  • Money
  • Experience

• I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Control
  • Actor
  • Charge

• The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Reason
  • Movies
  • Paid

• I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Sweet

• My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mom
  • Actors
  • Auditions

• Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York, had no idea what the hell I was doing, and just did anything I could for a really long time.

  

  Erin Maya Darke
  • Business
  • Teach
  • No Idea

• I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Remember
  • Name
  • Theater

• At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • America
  • Theater

• I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • School
  • Dance
  • Talent

• Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Theater
  • Recreation

• I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Chubby

• Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Crying
  • Promises
  • Babies

• I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Important
  • Career
  • Beginning

• It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Theater
  • Experiences
  • Enjoyable

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