Theater Quotes - Page 4

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

The theater is magical and addictive.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

The theater was my mother and my father.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

Theater helps people keep sane.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

I just love, I love, I love movies.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.