Theater quotes
111 theater quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Addams Family Values
“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
- From the movie: The First Great Train Robbery
“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.”
- From the movie: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
“Benji, we're trying to keep a low profile. You want drama, go to the opera.”
- From the movie: Shakespeare in Love
“- 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.” - From the movie: Moulin Rouge!
“My heroes were all in the theatre.”
- From the movie: The Band Wagon
- From the movie: The Band Wagon
- From the movie: The Band Wagon
“If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.”
- From the movie: All About Eve
“- Eve: It's not modesty. I just don't try to kid myself.
- Addison DeWitt: A revolutionary approach to the theater.” - From the movie: All About Eve
- From the movie: All About Eve
“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.”
- From the movie: The Lost Weekend
“- Don Birnam: One should always see Shakespeare on an empty stomach.
- Gloria: Not even a pretzel?” “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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”
- From the movie: The Gallows
- From the movie: The Gallows
“- 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.”
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