Socrates didn’t care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. – Moses Mendelssohn
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We’ve been very supportive of the veterans there. – Gary Sinise
I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase ‘TV actor.’ It’s like saying you’re a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. – Eric McCormack
I’m a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America. – George Takei
I had unusual parents. We’d been to Europe. We’d been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family. – Mario Van Peebles
I used to watch movies – silent movies – and stock companies and theater whenever I could. – E. G. Marshall
I’ve always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. – Emmanuel Lubezki
I didn’t go to theater school. I didn’t go to Julliard. But I’ve lived a lot. I’ve seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit. – Minka Kelly
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood. – Carl Weathers
I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea. – Doug Davidson
I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare. – Christine Woods
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot. – Clark Gregg
I’m from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A. – Madisen Beaty
When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies – in San Francisco, we had ‘Kung Fu Theater’ on TV on Saturdays, and they’d air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that. – Daniel Wu
Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I’d just do theater on the side. – Michael Lomenda
I love musical theater. That’s what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was ‘Peter Pan.’ – David Hasselhoff
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it’s always happening. – Elizabeth Olsen
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet’s task to turn it into an audience. – Franz Grillparzer
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’ve always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. – Daniela Bobadilla
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced ‘Billy Elliot’ is very, very exciting. – Eric Fellner
I’ve worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be. – Eve Arden