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Quotes About Theater

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.
~ David Mamet
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
~ David Ogden Stiers
I would say acting on stage is my first love.
~ David Schwimmer
That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
~ Debra Messing
I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.
~ Douglas Booth
I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I'd love to do some theater.
~ Emily VanCamp
I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!
~ Emmy Rossum
My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"
~ Enrico Colantoni
I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.
~ Erica Schroeder
Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.
~ Erika Slezak
I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
~ Finn Wittrock
Then you're saying this theater isn't haunted? I'm saying so what if it is? said Edgar. People have been saying the place is haunted for nearly fifty years now, and in all that time the ghost hasn't done one bit of harm. Why should she start now? Maybe she doesn't like the script, Ken Abbott said. Thanks a lot, Ken, said Alan Bland.
~ Bruce Coville
Love is a crowded theater, for as Harold Bloom remarks, "We can never embrace (sexually or otherwise) a single person, but embrace the whole of her or his family romance.
~ Camille Paglia
Mauricio looked like he'd rather b in the front row of a German opera.
~ Carl Hiassen
I don't want realism
~ Tennessee Williams
The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn't belong to her, one that wasn't in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn't belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn't know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.
~ Terry Pratchett
You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.
~ Terry Pratchett
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. And because the theater was fiction made flesh, she hated the theater most of all. But that was it—hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
~ Terry Pratchett
Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost
~ Terry Pratchett
Actors had a habit of filling all the space around them.
~ Terry Pratchett