All Quotes

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.
‐‐ Andre Holland

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?
‐‐ Joe Mantello

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
‐‐ Laurie Metcalf

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

Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.
‐‐ John Logan

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
‐‐ Hugh Hardy

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
‐‐ Adrienne Shelly

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.
‐‐ Megan Hilty

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
‐‐ Christian Slater

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
‐‐ Les Claypool

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
‐‐ Diane Paulus

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
‐‐ Victor Garber

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
‐‐ James Agate

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember - my dad is also an actor and a director and a storyteller who lives and works in the Twin Cities; my mom is a nurse practitioner, but she also grew up doing theatre - so, it has always been a part of my experience.
‐‐ Seth Numrich

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
‐‐ Cyril Cusack

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
‐‐ Lucien Bourjeily

Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
‐‐ John Lahr

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
‐‐ Edward Hall

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
‐‐ Katori Hall

Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
‐‐ Richard Eyre

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
‐‐ Patrick Marber

Theatre is immediate gratification.
‐‐ Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
‐‐ Helen McCrory

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
‐‐ Om Puri

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
‐‐ Christine Lahti

Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.
‐‐ Lillete Dubey

Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
‐‐ Jimmi Simpson

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
‐‐ Marian Seldes