Theater Quotes
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I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.
Scott Bakula -
The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
Kevin Spacey
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In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
William Mapother -
I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
Marcello Mastroianni -
My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
Jessica Chastain -
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
William Hurt -
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman -
The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
Katharine Hepburn
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
Alan Rickman -
I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
Courtney Love -
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
William Ivey Long -
As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
Kristen Stewart -
The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
Kevin Spacey -
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells
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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 -
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
Julia Roberts -
I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
Alex Timbers -
My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
Kiefer Sutherland -
I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.
Chris Carmack -
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
Mireille Enos
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
Tony Kushner -
I think of theater as a place of instructive entertainment where you can sit and learn to laugh or cry. I'm not going to ever contribute to delinquency in my roles, either adult or juvenile delinquency; I think too much of the public.
Agnes Moorehead -
To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
Scott Caan -
So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
Rene Descartes