Theater Quotes
Sad Quotes about Theater

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
- Don DeLillo

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
- Oskar Werner

I was obsessed with romance.
When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every
day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
- John Hughes

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
- Joyce Carol Oates

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball
and I headed the school paper.
But I also developed very early a great love for music
and literature and the theater.
- Carlisle Floyd

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember,
in theater.
- Antoinette Perry

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity.
That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
- Jack Bowman

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
- Maureen O'Hara

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre
and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
- Graeme Murphy

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where
you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
- Richard Lamm

There was no professional theater in Cork,
but still I did a lot of performing.
- Fiona Shaw

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
- Placido Domingo

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
- Wole Soyinka

The theater is a tough place.
It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
- Patti LuPone

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it,
like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
- Estelle Parsons

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.
- Sanaa Lathan

I started a theater called Steppenwolf.
We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
- Gary Sinise

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school
because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me:
music and theater.
- Morgan Freeman

I grew up in Washington, D.C.
But also loving the theater.
- Frank Rich

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater,
on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
- Dan Glickman

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

I love working in the theater.
- Didi Conn

The theater is magical and addictive.
- Angela Lansbury

Well I'm not much of a singer.
But it's been a really nice time to do film,
television, theater and have it all happening at once.
That wasn't planned but it just happens.
- Peter Krause

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of
experience of really just loving being in the theater.
- Marisa Tomei

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life.
Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
- William Ralph Inge

I've always just gone with the best role,
and I don't care if it's in theater,
film or television.
- Kristen Johnston

I knew there was something special about the theater
for me something beyond the regular reality,
something that I could get into and transcend and become
something other than myself.
- Raul Julia

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical
theater and to create a new audience.
- Jerry Herman

I might be doing a lot more theater,
which is kind of what I love,
but there's simply no time for.
- Erika Slezak

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

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were.
I'm not following the other person.
It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
- Omar Sharif

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
- Thomas Griffith

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years.
And we were the first act.
- Eydie Gorme

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
- Skeet Ulrich

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play,
you don't think about it - you're in it.
- William Kraft

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater,
as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think,
he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
- Moses Mendelssohn

As soon as white folks say a play's good,
the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
- August Wilson

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
- William Hurt

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.
- Sam Mendes

People whose understanding and taste in literature,
painting, and music are beyond question are,
for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
- Minnie Maddern Fiske

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
- Estelle Parsons

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve
our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
- Alvin Ailey

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films.
That's a lot of work.
- Armand Assante

I had studied theater for three years in London when
someone suggested me for the role.
- Orlando Bloom

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good,
but because it has great relationships with different theaters,
it can get into a big theater.
- Marguerite Moreau

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry.
It's all theater.
- Jim Carrey

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

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater.
It's immediate.
You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.
- Austin Peck

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
- Steven Berkoff

I got tackled once in a movie theater.
I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I
got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
- Scott Wolf

I've always loved film more than theater.
- Laura Dern

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature,
so I had an early exposure to literature,
and and theater.
My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
- Francis Ford Coppola

I had never done any theater in high school,
which actually worked to my benefit.
I didn't develop any bad habits.
- David James Elliott

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

The show can go on without me, and probably will,
but I want to come back to act in Chicago.
My wife and I just bought a condo downtown,
and I want to do theater.
- William Petersen

I seemed to belong to three countries:
I had an apartment in Paris,
a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall,
I moved to London.
- Leslie Caron

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors
for the Texas Ballet Theater.
- Janine Turner

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives
an entertainer a special charge.
- Charley Pride

I love theater.
- Kristin Davis

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
- Marcia Gay Harden

The theater needs continual reminders that there is
nothing more debasing than the work of those who do
well what is not worth doing at all.
- Gore Vidal

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment.
And I didn't resist it.
- Vincente Minnelli

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

The theater is the thing I love doing most.
- Judi Dench

I adore the theater and I am a painter.
I think the two are made for a marriage of love.
I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
- Marc Chagall

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence,
and the theater you like has more to do with language.
- Ben Kingsley

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

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem,
serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
- Arthur Miller

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
- Eartha Kitt

The difference - the fundamental difference between
theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
- James Lipton