“Look at ‘Batman’ – that was theater of the absurd, as is ‘Family Guy.’”
― Adam West
“My first wife was a theater person.”
― Ahmet Ertegun
“I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, ‘I’m going to do theater.’”
― Aja Naomi King
“Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.”
― Al Pacino
“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”
― Alan Jay Lerner
“Leisure time is when I’m not at the Booth Theater.”
― Alice Ripley
“In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.”
― Allison Tolman
“I have a passion to do theater.”
― Amy Irving
“My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.”
― Amy Schumer
“I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.”
― Andrew Rannells
“I love doing both theater and television.”
― Andrew Rannells
“The theater is magical and addictive.”
― Angela Lansbury
“In the ’80s, ‘Dreamgirls’ was our ‘Hamilton.’ It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.”
― Angela Robinson
“Theater was just what I was supposed to do.”
― Annaleigh Ashford
“One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.”
― Annie Parisse
“Picture-taking is an ensemble art – like theater.”
― Ansel Elgort
“I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.”
― Anthony Edwards
“I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.”
― Antoinette Perry
“I long to get back into theater.”
― Antonio Banderas
“I’ve worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That’s a lot of work.”
― Armand Assante
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
― Arthur Miller
“I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.”
― Ashley Bell
“I have a theater company that I’m a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.”
― Ato Essandoh
“I wanted to go to theater school.”
― Baron Vaughn
“I’ve always been totally obsessed with theater – especially musicals.”
― Beanie Feldstein
“I’ve sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.”
― Ben Sprecher
“Theater is a gamble and a tough road.”
― Betty Buckley
“The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn’t even go to theater camp.”
― Betty Gilpin
“Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.”
― Betty Gilpin
“I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.”
― Bill Pullman
“I was heavily involved in musical theater.”
― Brad Goreski
“My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.”
― Brandon Victor Dixon
“You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.”
― Brett Ratner
“I come from straight theater.”
― Brian Baumgartner
“I’ve directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it because it’s too consuming.”
― Brian Cox
“Theater’s literally where I started.”
― Brian Tyree Henry
“I would love to do some theater.”
― Caitriona Balfe
“I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.”
― Cameron Britton
“The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.”
― Cameron Mackintosh
“I have always wanted to do theater.”
― Casey Cott
“I’m a super theater nerd.”
― Casey Cott
“A seven-minute take is almost like theater.”
― Caterina Scorsone
“I love theater, and I’ve always been a huge movie buff.”
― Chance The Rapper
“As a kid, I had a background in theater.”
― Charlie Kaufman
“There’s theater in life, obviously, and there’s life in theater.”
― Charlie Kaufman
“When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.”
― Charlie McDowell
“I wouldn’t be the same actor if I couldn’t do theater.”
― Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I grew up doing musical theater.”
― Chris Colfer
“At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater!”
― Christian Louboutin
“I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.”
― Christina Milian
“Gendered performance is just constant theater.”
― Christine and the Queens
“When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it’s called a revival.”
― Condola Rashad
“My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.”
― Connie Britton
“Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.”
― Corey Stoll
“My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII.”
― Dana Loesch
“I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.”
― Daveed Diggs
“I wouldn’t succeed at musical theater.”
― David Duchovny
“The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.”
― David Hasselhoff
“I love working in the theater.”
― Didi Conn
“I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.”
― Dorothy McGuire
“I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.”
― Eartha Kitt
“I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.”
― Edward Zwick
“There’s certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.”
― Elaine Stritch
“I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.”
― Elizabeth Mitchell
“Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.”
― Emanuel Azenberg
“I’d love to do some theater.”
― Emily VanCamp
“I would totally love to do theater.”
― Emma Kenney
“At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.”
― Estelle Parsons
“Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.”
― Estelle Parsons
“I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn’t appeal to me.”
― Ethel Merman
“Theater dates very quickly.”
― Fiona Shaw
“I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I’m bored by it.”
― Fiona Shaw
“In my theater work, I’ve had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.”
― Frances McDormand
“I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.”
― Frank Rich
“I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.”
― Gabrielle Bernstein
“’The Wire’ was a combination of great TV and great theater.”
― Gbenga Akinnagbe
“I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.”
― George C. Wolfe
“The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.”
― George C. Wolfe
“Children are the beneficiaries – and also the victims – of the theater of various moments.”
― George W. S. Trow
“The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.”
― Germaine Greer
“My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.”
― GloZell
“In college, I actually majored in Musical Theater. I was pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater.”
― Grant Gustin
“I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.”
― Grey DeLisle
“I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.”
― Haley Joel Osment
“I didn’t go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.”
― Harold Prince
“I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.”
― Harry Dean Stanton
“I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.”
― Hill Harper
“I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.”
― Idina Menzel
“I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.”
― Indira Varma
“By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.”
― Ira Sachs
“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
“What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.”
― Israel Horovitz
“I was really into theater, really into music a lot.”
― Jacob Zachar
“Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.”
― Jake Johnson
“Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.”
― James Broughton
“I like theater; I just don’t really like actors.”
― James Ransone
“The first perk of theater is the girls.”
― James Spader
“I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.”
― James Van Der Beek
“In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.”
― Jamey Sheridan
“All theater is unpredictable. That’s the definition of theater.”
― Janet McTeer
“I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I’m the artistic director and co-founder.”
― Jason Ralph
“In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it’s the eyes.”
― Jeffrey Wright
“I’m kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.”
― Jenn Lyon
“I’m a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.”
― Jennifer Holliday
“Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.”
― Jeremy Irons
“I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.”
― Jeremy Irons
“I have done a lot of theater.”
― Jerry Hall
“At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.”
― Jimmy Smits
“If I hadn’t gone into the theater, I would be a painter.”
― Joe Mantello
“With my background, I came out of the theater.”
― Joe Morton
“Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it’s really derived of many influences.”
― Joel Hodgson
“’Hedwig’ was born in ’94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.”
― John Cameron Mitchell
“I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.”
― John Cameron Mitchell
“I’m afraid to do theater now.”
― John Corbett
“I’m supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.”
― John Malkovich
“Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.”
― John Malkovich
“The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.”
― John Patrick Shanley
“As theater artists, it’s a great luxury to have time.”
― Jonathan Freeman
“Theater is certainly – is my first love, if I had to pick.”
― Joshua Henry
“There’s a romance and power to live theater.”
― Joshua Jackson
“The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.”
― Judi Dench
“The theater is the thing I love doing most.”
― Judi Dench
“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.”
― Julia Roberts
“Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.”
― Julia Stiles
“What I don’t have in theater is editing.”
― Julie Taymor
“For me, I’ve always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.”
― Justin Bartha
“I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.”
― Katharine McPhee
“I was a theater nerd.”
― Kathryn Hahn
“I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.”
― Kel Mitchell
“I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.”
― Ken Curtis
“I got into theater at an early age.”
― Kevin Daniels
“I’m such a theater geek.”
― Kiernan Shipka
“I love theater.”
― Kristin Davis
“I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.”
― Kurtwood Smith
“My whole life is a theater piece.”
― Lady Gaga
“I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in ‘Macbeth.’”
― LaTanya Richardson
“The theater is the reason I am an actress.”
― LaTanya Richardson
“If you can make it in theater, you can make it anywhere.”
― LaTanya Richardson
“I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.”
― Laura San Giacomo
“I really did always want to do theater.”
― Lauren Ambrose
“We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.”
― Les Aspin
“’Hamilton’ has restored my faith in theater.”
― Leslie Odom, Jr.
“If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don’t get to do it as much as I would like to.”
― Luke Kirby
“I’ve graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.”
― Machine Gun Kelly
“I want to do theater, TV, movies.”
― Maia Mitchell
“Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.”
― Marcia Gay Harden
“Today’s restaurant is theater on a grand scale.”
― Marian Burros
“If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.”
― Marian Seldes
“I come from a traditional theater background.”
― Mark Ruffalo
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
― Martha Graham
“There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.”
― Martha Plimpton
“You have to be crazy to do theater.”
― Martin Landau
“I took a theater class in college and loved it.”
― Matt Czuchry
“I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.”
― Maureen O’Hara
“TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.”
― Melissa Benoist
“Theater has always been terrifying to me.”
― Merritt Wever
“I love the theater of me.”
― Michael Moriarty
“I had pinned all my hopes on the theater.”
― Michael Potts
“I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.”
― Michael Ritchie
“Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare’s theater.”
― Michael Tippett
“I was definitely a choir and theater geek.”
― Michelle Branch
“This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.”
― Minnie Maddern Fiske
“I knew I always wanted to major in theater.”
― Natasha Rothwell
“The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.”
― Neil Patrick Harris
“I’d love to return to theater.”
― Orlando Bloom
“There were centuries when civilization had no theater.”
― Orson Welles
“I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.”
― Oskar Werner
“I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.”
― Oskar Werner
“Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.”
― Patrick J. Adams
“Musical theater is one of my passions.”
― Patrick Wilson
“Theater is hard.”
― Paul Dano
“I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.”
― Paul Giamatti
“Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.”
― Paul Rudd
“I’m obsessed with ‘Rocky.’ We went 13 times to the theater.”
― Paula Pell
“I’m a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.”
― Paulo Costanzo
“The drama nerd comes out in me when I’m in a theater.”
― Philip Seymour Hoffman
“My girlfriend’s a costume designer in the theater.”
― Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.”
― Phylicia Rashad
“The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.”
― Placido Domingo
“Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.”
― Preston Sturges
“I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.”
― Quentin Tarantino
“I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.”
― R. J. Cutler
“I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.”
― Rachael MacFarlane
“Actually, I didn’t like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.”
― Rachel Dratch
“Thank God for the theater.”
― Raul Julia
“All terrorism is theater.”
― Raymond Kelly
“The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That’s what all theater and all film is based on.”
― Rhys Ifans
“My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.”
― Rich Brian
“If I wasn’t in the theater, I would be a hermit.”
― Richard Foreman
“I’m very much interested in doing actual theater.”
― Richard LaGravenese
“There’s hearings on everything. They’re kabuki theater.”
― Rick Santelli
“I think theater communities in cities can form really strong foundations.”
― Rob McClure
“I’m a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.”
― Robert Lepage
“Theater originated with technology. People forget that.”
― Robert Lepage
“I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.”
― Robert Wilson
“Most theater tells you what to think.”
― Robert Wilson
“All theater is dance.”
― Robert Wilson
“Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.”
― Rocky Carroll
“I’m not a playwright; I’m a writer who loves theater.”
― Rodman Philbrick
“All this thing that L.A. doesn’t have any love for the theater isn’t true.”
― Roger Rees
“I’m an actor of the theater.”
― Russell Hornsby
“Musicals are my favorite. I’m a musical theater buff.”
― Rutina Wesley
“We all have an escape. Mine was theater.”
― Samantha Barks
“I’ve found that musical theater is my passion.”
― Samantha Barks
“Theater feeds my heart and soul.”
― Sara Ramirez
“My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.”
― Sarah Jessica Parker
“I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.”
― Sean Gunn
“I’m from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.”
― Sherry Stringfield
“I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.”
― Sian Clifford
“I tend to go to the theater a lot. I’ve always loved it.”
― Sophie McShera
“I started a theater company when I was 17.”
― Stephen Moyer
“I’m theater trained.”
― Steve Zahn
“I’m very resistant to most forms of theater.”
― Steven Berkoff
“For my part, I like live theater best when it’s taut, concentrated and intimate.”
― Terry Teachout
“Journalism as theater is what TV news is.”
― Thomas Griffith
“I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.”
― Thomas Middleditch
“’Cabaret’ was one of the first pieces of musical theater I saw that showed the possibilities of what musical theater can do.”
― Tom Kitt
“I’m an old fashioned theater major at heart.”
― Tom Lenk
“I think theater ought to be theatrical.”
― Tom Stoppard
“I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.”
― Tom Stoppard
“I like the notion of theater as recreational.”
― Tom Stoppard
“Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.”
― Tony Kushner
“In my opinion, theater shouldn’t give advice to citizens.”
― Vaclav Havel
“I loved working in the theater.”
― Valerie Harper
“No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.”
― Vincent D’Onofrio
“Theater is an amazing outlet.”
― Vincent Rodriguez III
“I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.”
― Ving Rhames
“When people come into the theater, whether it’s the screen or the stage, they’ve gotta be transported and transformed.”
― Viola Davis
“I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.”
― Wendell Pierce
“There’s something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.”
― Wole Soyinka
“I’ve done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.”
― Wole Soyinka
“I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I’m in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.”
― Yolanda Adams
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