Theater Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I grew up doing musical theater.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.