Theater Quotes

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

Life, Wanted, Whole

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Loni Anderson

Time, Acting, Started

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
Jenna Ushkowitz

School, Acting, Dance

When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.
Jenna Ushkowitz

Dad, Through, Remember

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
Sade Adu

Play, Whatever, Create

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

Change, Person, Boring

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.
Stephen Moyer

True, Happen, Find

I started a theater company when I was 17.
Stephen Moyer

Started, Company

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.
Stephen Daldry

Nature, Time, Truth

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.
Stephen Daldry

Work, Same, Moment

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
Melissa Bean

Medical, Brave, Last

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.
David Boreanaz

Studying, Background

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
Max von Sydow

Movies, Control, Fighting

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
Christine Baranski

Down, Wanted, Almost

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
William Hurt

Done, Perfection, Second

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
Patti LuPone

Goes, Anybody, Stage

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.
Piper Perabo

Two, Year, Film

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
Chester Bennington

Words, Opera, Concept

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey

Together, Play, Put

The first perk of theater is the girls.
James Spader

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Jerome Lawrence

Good, Failure, Why

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
Jerome Lawrence

Today, Bored, Play

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
Bill Hybels

Love, Power, Reality

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
David Cassidy

Work, Good, Team

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
David Friedman

Writing, Big, Here

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
Brian Cox

Movies, Enjoy, Sense

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.
Brian Cox

Work, Good, Money

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
Brian Cox

Home, Movies, Thought

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.
Brian Cox

Mother, Enjoy, Used

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.
Brian Cox

Times, Couple, Habit

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