Theater Quotes

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

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

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

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

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

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

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

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

So far,
I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world,
but I am now about to mount the stage,
and I come forward masked.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

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

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

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

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

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

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I wish to be moved.
I cannot feel in life.
I must have others do it for me in theater.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

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

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.