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.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

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

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

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

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.