Theater Quotes - Page 3

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

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

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.