theater quotes

“- Wednesday Addams: Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character and the Aristotelian unities.
- Gary: Young lady, I am getting just a tad tired of your attitude problem.”

Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams
Peter MacNicol - Gary Granger

“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
Gene Kelly

“- Miriam: Do they know you take an interest in the theater?
- Pierce: Well, an unmarried gentleman must amuse himself.
- Miriam: Must he?”

Lesley-Anne Down - Miriam
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce

“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
Shelley Winters

“Benji, we're trying to keep a low profile. You want drama, go to the opera.”

Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

“In theater when you do a comedy, you rehearse for a few weeks and you begin to feel the rhythm. In film it's an arbitrary rhythm usually that has to look like a truthful one to work.”
Austin Pendleton

“- Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
- Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do?
- Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
- Hugh Fennyman: How?
- Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.”
Geoffrey Rush - Philip Henslowe
Tom Wilkinson - Hugh Fennyman

“- Zidler: Remember: a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be...
- Satine: A real actress.”
Jim Broadbent - Harold Zidler
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“My heroes were all in the theatre.”
Damian Lewis

“I tell you, if it moves you, if it stimulates you, if it entertains you, it's theater. When the right combination gets together and it spells theater, well I got to be right in there up to my armpits.”
Jack Buchanan - Jeffrey Cordova

“These four walls will be our universe. Our private world. We enter with nothing but a dream. But, when we leave, we'll have a show!”
Jack Buchanan - Jeffrey Cordova

“I'm sick of these artificial barriers between the musical and the drama. In my mind, there is no difference between the magic rhythms of Bill Shakespeare's immortal verse and the magic rhythms of Bill Robinson's immortal feet.”
Jack Buchanan - Jeffrey Cordova

“If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.”
Lucas Hedges

“- Eve: It's not modesty. I just don't try to kid myself.
- Addison DeWitt: A revolutionary approach to the theater.”
Anne Baxter - Eve Harrington
George Sanders - Addison DeWitt

“Nothing is forever in the theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.”
Celeste Holm - Karen Richards

“Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre.”
Gary Merrill - Bill Simpson

“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”
Zachary Levi

“Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.”
Lesley Manville

“- Don Birnam: One should always see Shakespeare on an empty stomach.
- Gloria: Not even a pretzel?”
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Doris Dowling - Gloria

“Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn't feel anywhere else in my life.”

Jeremy Strong

“Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It's just you out there with no rope. You can't call time out; you're on a roller coaster.”
Sebastian Stan

“If you're born in the theater and wedded to it, the lights go down and your pulse goes up and your stomach won't stay still, and there's nothing like it.”
Judith Anderson

“The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”
Stella Adler

“- Ryan Shoos: So anyway Pfeifer after the show bombs, what are you going to do about Reese?
- Pfeifer Ross: The show is not going to bomb Ryan, we're going to finish the show, it's going to look great.”
Ryan Shoos - Ryan Shoos
Pfeifer Brown - Pfeifer Ross

“- Cheerleader: So how does it feel being in drama Cass?
- Cassidy Spilker: Uh, such a bitch.
- Ryan Shoos: Uh what?
- Cassidy Spilker: What? If I had known there was going to be so much actual drama involved I wouldn't have picked it.”
Mackie Burt - Cheerleader
Cassidy Gifford - Cassidy Spilker
Ryan Shoos - Ryan Shoos