Best Theater Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”

Thinking World Film Actors Directors Theater

“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Diego Luna

“I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.”

Events Theater

Author:Jane Lynch

“I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.”

Seeing Theater

Author:Logan Lerman

“I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.”

Lessons Theater

Author:Melanie Laurent

“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.”

Kids Mother Father Theater Nerd Descending Orpheus

Author:Logan Marshall-Green

“I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.”

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Author:John Noble

“I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.”

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Author:Navid Negahban

“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

School Teacher Drama High School Theater

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.”

Persons Would Be Sleep Terrible Theater

Author:Haley Joel Osment

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

Ifs Want New York Theater

Author:John O'Hurley

“I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!”

Age Wanted Design Theater

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.”

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Author:Trevor Nunn

“The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.”

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Author:Trevor Nunn

“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.”

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Author:Trevor Nunn

“I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.”

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Author:Aprilynne Pike

“I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.”

Ifs Long Exercise Theater Muscles

Author:Clarke Peters

“It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.”

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Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.”

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Author:Adrianne Palicki

“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

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Author:Adrianne Palicki

“But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.”

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Author:Elaine Paige

“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

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Author:Franka Potente

“Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.”

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Author:Janel Parrish

“To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.”

People Actors House Theater Welcome

Author:Martha Plimpton

“The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.”

Feels Home Theater Inspired Who I Am

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.”

Thinking Three Stars Saws Theater Obsessed Three Times

Author:Todd Phillips

“I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.”

Years Three Theater Three Years San Francisco Baltimore Conservatory

Author:Wendell Pierce

“One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.”

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Author:William Petersen

“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.”

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Author:William Petersen

“I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.”

Home Film Turns Actors Speak Theater

Author:Michael Rooker

“I love working in New York theater.”

New York Theater

Author:Alan Rickman

“Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”

Knows Ideas Film Left Saws Happened Feet Six Theater No Idea Cinema Twins Floating Craziest Twin Peaks

Author:Jacques Rivette

“For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.”

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Author:James Rollins

“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.”

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Author:Lily Rabe

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