Theater Quotes - page 12

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.' (Robin McLeavy)
I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film. View quote
Romany Malco
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates. View quote
Ralph Waite
I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people. View quote
Rene Auberjonois
And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business. View quote
Rene Auberjonois
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional. View quote
Richard Foreman
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. View quote
Richard Foreman
There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back. View quote
Sada Thompson
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead. View quote
Shirley Knight
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater. View quote
Shirley Knight
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. (Shirley Knight)
I'm an actor, coming from New York theater. View quote
Skeet Ulrich
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen. View quote
Stacy Keach
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. View quote
Sam Mendes
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. View quote
Sam Mendes
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. View quote
Sam Mendes
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. View quote
Stanley Tucci
I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots. View quote
Sutton Foster
I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy. View quote
Sutton Foster
I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything. View quote
Sanaa Lathan
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school. (Sara Canning)
To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot. View quote
Scott Caan
I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater, I got into work mode. View quote
Scott Haze
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. View quote
Tim Crouch
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. View quote
Tim DeKay