Theater Quotes

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
Patrick Wilson

Great, Night, Next

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
Patrick Wilson

Film, Intimacy, Immediate

Musical theater is one of my passions.
Patrick Wilson

Musical, Passions

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
George Takei

Time, Off, Hunk

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Edward Albee

Reality, Fantasy

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
Leslie Caron

Married, Three, House

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.
R. Kelly

Love, Music, Before

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
Michael Fassbender

Him, Leaving, Place

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
Skeet Ulrich

Actor, Coming, York

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Character, Mind, Impossible

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
Sam Mendes

Great, Movies, Live

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes

Home, Enjoy, Living

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.
John Madden

Time, Live, System

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
Germaine Greer

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
Debra Messing

Love, Old, Wanted

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
Graeme Murphy

Theatre, Four, Drama

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
Eli Wallach

Experience, Today, Character

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
Elizabeth Berkley

Work, Important, Reason

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
Jeff Daniels

Wanted, Film, Gone

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
Jeff Daniels

Life, Love, Time

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
Rick Baker

Stuff, Generation, Television

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.
Todd Phillips

Great, Times, Three

I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's nothing like seeing a film with 500 people in a theater. And there's something about putting on 3-D glasses that makes it a very singular experience for me. Suddenly I'm not connected to the audience anymore.
Todd Phillips

Experience, Movies, Nothing

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
Gunter Grass

Mother, Far, State

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
Fay Wray

Work, Around, Wonderful

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
William H. Macy

Best, Movies, Powerful

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
Zoe Kazan

Experience, Movies, Magic

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Zoe Kazan

Love, Movies, Find

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
Zoe Kazan

Love, Experience, Movies

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
David Oyelowo

Moving, Eyes, Acting

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