theater quotes

“There is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.”
Ethel Barrymore

“I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.”
Tony Randall

“- Wyatt Earp: Well, I'll be damned.
- Doc Holliday: You may indeed, if you get lucky.”

Kurt Russell - Wyatt Earp
Val Kilmer - Doc Holliday

“I hate you and everyone you represent. Entitled, selfish, spoiled children. Blissfully untrained, unversed and unprepared to even attempt real art. Handing each other awards for cartoons and pornography. Measuring your worth in weekends? Well this is the theater and you don't get to come in here and pretend you can write, direct and act in your...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lindsay Duncan - Tabitha

- Woman at Car: Did you like the opera, dear?
- Vivian Ward: It was so good, I almost peed my pants!
- Edward Lewis: She said she liked it better than "Pirates of Penzance".
Tracy Reiner - Woman at Car
Julia Roberts - Vivian Ward
Richard Tiffany Gere - Edward Lewis

“Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.”
Bobby Cannavale

“- Pinocchio: I'm going to school.
- J. Worthington Foulfellow: School. Ah, yes. Then perhaps you haven't heard of the easy road to success. No? I'm speaking, my boy, of the theater!”
Dickie Jones - Pinocchio
Walter Catlett - J. Worthington Foulfellow

“- Lloyd Fellowes: I've been working on Hamlet for the past six weeks.
- Dotty: Do you think he needs working on more than we do?”

Sir Michael Caine - Lloyd Fellowes
Carol Burnett - Dotty Otley

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

“Up there, those are the actors and the costumes and the scenery. They don't know the soul of the opera. In your dressing room, I could only teach you the words, the notes. But here... here I can teach you the meaning.”

Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise.”
Mary Pickford

“You cannot lie on stage, the audience will always know what is inside your heart.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Philippe Petit

“I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. ”
Lindsay Duncan

“Don't try to make me feel sorry. I have no heart for the theater. I am what I am. I must be what I must be.”

Lynn Bari - Michaela Villegas

He offered you parts in Cats? I thought you hated Cats. You said it was an all time low in a lifetime of theatre going. You said, "Aeschylus did not invent the theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids in cat suits prancing around wondering which of them will go to kitty-cat heaven".
Catherine Kellner - Tess

“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies.”
Amanda Plummer

“I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters.”
Željko Ivanek

“I left school with no qualifications but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing.”
Dexter Fletcher

“I'm not a huge fan of improv theater.”
John Michael Higgins

“Theater is dangerously open to repetition.”
Fiona Shaw

“The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.”
Patrick Wilson

“In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there.”
Saul Rubinek

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”
Diego Luna

“Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.”
Peter Boyle

“It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.”
Emily Mortimer