All Quotes

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
‐‐ Marcello Mastroianni

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.
‐‐ Howard Shore

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
‐‐ Vanessa Redgrave

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
‐‐ Kevin Daniels

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
‐‐ Ben Brantley

Theater dates very quickly.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
‐‐ Cheyenne Jackson

Theater feeds my heart and soul.
‐‐ Sara Ramirez

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.
‐‐ Al Pacino

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
‐‐ Anna D. Shapiro

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
‐‐ Bill Pullman

Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.
‐‐ Michael Riedel

Theater has always been terrifying to me.
‐‐ Merritt Wever

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
‐‐ Eve Ensler

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.
‐‐ Seth Numrich

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
‐‐ Ian McShane

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.
‐‐ Darren Criss

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.
‐‐ Condola Rashad

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
‐‐ Martha Graham

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
‐‐ Patrick J. Adams

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.
‐‐ Jason Moore

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.
‐‐ Kevin McCollum

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
‐‐ Pauline Collins

Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

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

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.
‐‐ Jennifer Nettles

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.
‐‐ Mark O'Donnell

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
‐‐ Julie Taymor

Theater is hard.
‐‐ Paul Dano

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.
‐‐ Jonny Lee Miller

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
‐‐ Dianne Wiest

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
‐‐ John Malkovich

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.
‐‐ Sarah Steele

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.
‐‐ Rocky Carroll

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
‐‐ Paul Rudd

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
‐‐ Jason Alexander