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Top 235 Theater Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“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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