Theater Quotes

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
Sophia Loren

Person, Tried, Shy

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo

Violence, Open, Powerless

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
Michael Bloomberg

Work, Politics, Good

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham

Before, Place, Act

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

America, Become, Boxing

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Morgan Freeman

Great, God, Successful

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

Experience, Dad, Young

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
Nicole Kidman

Dark, Actor, Natural

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.
David Duchovny

Succeed, Musical

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
Alan Rickman

Parents, Accident

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

Time, Become, Acting

I love working in New York theater.
Alan Rickman

Love, Working, York

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.
Alan Rickman

Energy, Whole, Body

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Arthur Miller

While, Looking, House

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.
Emma Watson

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Before, Miss, Hours

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
Diablo Cody

Nothing, Listen, Written

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
Alan Alda

Win, Before, Wait

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
Ralph Fiennes

School, Character, Heart

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
Ralph Fiennes

Death, Night, Soothing

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes

Between, Gun, Film

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
John Malkovich

Work, Done, Proud

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
John Malkovich

Good, Pretty, Actor

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
John Malkovich

Work, Women, Movies

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
John Malkovich

Design, School, Few

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.

Time, Good, Live

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Lester Bangs

Women, Men, Social

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
Francis Ford Coppola

Friends, Kid, Moved

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola

Work, Father, Sometimes

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
Adam Lambert

Love, Live, Fashion

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