Quotes About Theater

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

I was never interested in anything, particularly. I didn't get through school. I was a layabout. So, I started working at a theater to earn some money, as a part-time job.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.