Theater Quotes

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.
Andy Serkis

Done, Point, Expect

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.
Geoffrey Rush

Live, Special, Might

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.
Kerry Washington

Sexy, Enough, Acting

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
Anna Kendrick

Rock, Stars, Sure

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
Anna Kendrick

Time, Great, Live

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
Robert Caro

Down, Through, Another

I come from a traditional theater background.
Mark Ruffalo

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Robertson Davies

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
Minnie Driver

Love, Boring, Whole

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Laurie Anderson

Art, School, Thinking

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.
David Hasselhoff

Blessed, Talent

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
Fergie

Different, Working, Wait

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.
Rainn Wilson

Before, Film, York

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
Ridley Scott

Home, Talk, Direct

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
Judi Dench

Lord, Scripts, Censoring

The theater is the thing I love doing most.
Judi Dench

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.
Michael Haneke

Work, Time, Business

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Agnes de Mille

America, Afraid, Quite

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life, Great, Best

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
Mandy Patinkin

Musical, Sondheim

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Mandy Patinkin

Great, Through, Public

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Knew, York, Supposed

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

Love, Fun, Long

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
Placido Domingo

Atmosphere, Oxygen

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
Carly Simon

Big, American, Jazz

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw

Life, Yourself, Writing

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin Shaw

Talk, Writer, Characters

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.
Denis Leary

Forget, Battle, Camera

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
James Broughton

Acting, Vision, Humans

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
James Broughton

Movies, Dance, Child

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