Theater Quotes - page 11

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. (Michael Tippett)
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. View quote
Mickey Gilley
I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket. View quote
Moe Howard
The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect. View quote
Monica Raymund
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. View quote
Moss Hart
Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people. View quote
Nancy Allen
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater. View quote
Nancy Allen
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting. View quote
Nancy Allen
I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him. View quote
Nolan Gould
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities. View quote
Noomi Rapace
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country. (Navid Negahban)
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater. View quote
Neil Tennant
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage. View quote
Neil Tennant
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. View quote
Oskar Werner
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. View quote
Peter Stone
From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic. View quote
Philip Baker Hall
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read. View quote
Patricia Heaton
Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun. View quote
Patricia Heaton
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself. View quote
Patrick J. Adams
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. View quote
Patrick Stewart
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. (Patrick Stewart)
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience. View quote
Patti LuPone
I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser. View quote
Paulo Costanzo
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. View quote
Robert Caro
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it. View quote
Rafael Vinoly