Theater Quotes

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.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

I don't think about going back to the theater.

The theater is magical and addictive.

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

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Theater feeds my heart and soul.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

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

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

I'd love to do some theater.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

I'm theater trained.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

I come from straight theater.

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

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

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I love working in the theater.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

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

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

I love theater.

I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.

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

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

I've always loved film more than theater.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

My first wife was a theater person.