Quotes About Theater

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

I grew up doing musical theater.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

I loved the movie theater, so I always saw a lot of movies.

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.

I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.