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Theater Quotes

Without sounding negative, I’m not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I’m more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

– Harland Williams

‘The Wire’ was a combination of great TV and great theater.

– Gbenga Akinnagbe

Children are the beneficiaries – and also the victims – of the theater of various moments.

– George W. S. Trow

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

– Graeme Murphy

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I’m always trying to figure out how to get to.

– Hamish Linklater

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

– Heather Matarazzo

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience – they’re potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they’ve ceased or gone less.

– Harold Prince

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the ’40s on.

– Harold Prince

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

– Jane Lynch

I’ve worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn’t really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

– Jessica Lange

The first perk of theater is the girls.

– James Spader

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

– Jennifer Garner

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.’

– James Wan

I’m supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

– John Malkovich

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

– Jesse Eisenberg

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

– Ivan Reitman

By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

– Ira Sachs

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

– Harold Ramis

I have this set-up at my house where I have one big movie theater screen that’s 9 ft. by 16 ft. Then, I have nine 63-inch monitors around it; four on either side and one underneath. So I get all nine one o’clock games, and I can switch them onto the big screen. That’s what I do on the Sundays during the season.

– John Madden

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

– Judi Dench

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

– Julia Stiles

My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

– Jack McBrayer

It’s one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

– Jacki Weaver

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

– John Patrick Shanley

Reality really is theater. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

– Joe Rogan

I’m a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.

– Joan Rivers

I have done a lot of theater.

– Jerry Hall

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

– Idina Menzel

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

– Irrfan Khan

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

– Irwin Shaw

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