Theater Quotes

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
Marcia Gay Harden

Time, Moving, Taking

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black

Play, Tough, Big

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

Big, American, Jazz

I love theater.
Kristin Davis

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

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

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Education, Knowledge, Beautiful

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
Jerry Hall

Beauty, Music, Art

Theater dates very quickly.
Fiona Shaw

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Fiona Shaw

Performing, Cork

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Fiona Shaw

Exciting, Open, Hit

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Fiona Shaw

Bored, Seriously, Loathe

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw

Bad, Sometimes, Theatre

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
Mickey Gilley

Best, Morning, Evening

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
Brit Marling

Around, Loved, Growing

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
Elizabeth Olsen

Good, School, Focus

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
Elizabeth Olsen

Great, History, Teacher

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
Elizabeth Olsen

While, Film, Difference

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
Elizabeth Olsen

Focus, Play, Media

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.
Elizabeth Olsen

Character, Feeling, Two

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
Trey Anastasio

Family, Loved, Bit

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
Trey Anastasio

Character, Everything, Learned

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
Jared Leto

Experience, Try, Around

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
Eric Stoltz

Love, Living, Able

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
Eric Stoltz

Time, Afraid, Talk

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
Mary McCarthy

Art, After, Away

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
Benicio Del Toro

Actor, Stage, Middle

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
Benicio Del Toro

Good, Freedom, Bad

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
Brett Ratner

Love, Feeling, Packed

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
Brett Ratner

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