“Look at ‘Batman’ – that was theater of the absurd, as is ‘Family Guy.’”
“My first wife was a theater person.”
“I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, ‘I’m going to do theater.’”
“Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.”
“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”
“Leisure time is when I’m not at the Booth Theater.”
“In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.”
“I have a passion to do theater.”
“My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.”
“I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.”
“I love doing both theater and television.”
“The theater is magical and addictive.”
“In the ’80s, ‘Dreamgirls’ was our ‘Hamilton.’ It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.”
“Theater was just what I was supposed to do.”
“One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.”
“Picture-taking is an ensemble art – like theater.”
“I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.”
“I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.”
“I long to get back into theater.”
“I’ve worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That’s a lot of work.”
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
“I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.”
“I have a theater company that I’m a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.”
“I wanted to go to theater school.”
“I’ve always been totally obsessed with theater – especially musicals.”
“I’ve sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.”
“Theater is a gamble and a tough road.”
“The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn’t even go to theater camp.”
“Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.”
“I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.”
“I was heavily involved in musical theater.”
“My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.”
“You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.”
“I come from straight theater.”
“I’ve directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it because it’s too consuming.”
“Theater’s literally where I started.”
“I would love to do some theater.”
“I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.”
“The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.”
“I have always wanted to do theater.”
“I’m a super theater nerd.”
“A seven-minute take is almost like theater.”
“I love theater, and I’ve always been a huge movie buff.”
“As a kid, I had a background in theater.”
“There’s theater in life, obviously, and there’s life in theater.”
“When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.”
“I wouldn’t be the same actor if I couldn’t do theater.”
“I grew up doing musical theater.”
“At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater!”
“I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.”
“Gendered performance is just constant theater.”
“When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it’s called a revival.”
“My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.”
“Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.”
“My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII.”
“I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.”
“I wouldn’t succeed at musical theater.”
“The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.”
“I love working in the theater.”
“I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.”
“I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.”
“I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.”
“There’s certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.”
“I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.”
“Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.”
“I’d love to do some theater.”
“I would totally love to do theater.”
“At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.”
“Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.”
“I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn’t appeal to me.”
“Theater dates very quickly.”
“I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I’m bored by it.”
“In my theater work, I’ve had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.”
“I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.”
“I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.”
“’The Wire’ was a combination of great TV and great theater.”
“I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.”
“The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.”
“Children are the beneficiaries – and also the victims – of the theater of various moments.”
“The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.”
“My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.”
“In college, I actually majored in Musical Theater. I was pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater.”
“I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.”
“I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.”
“I didn’t go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.”
“I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.”
“I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.”
“I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.”
“I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.”
“By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.”
“Parsi theater was known for melodrama.”
“In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.”
“What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.”
“I was really into theater, really into music a lot.”
“Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.”
“Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.”
“I like theater; I just don’t really like actors.”
“The first perk of theater is the girls.”
“I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.”
“In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.”
“All theater is unpredictable. That’s the definition of theater.”
“I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I’m the artistic director and co-founder.”
“In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it’s the eyes.”
“I’m kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.”
“I’m a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.”
“Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.”
“I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.”
“I have done a lot of theater.”
“At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.”
“If I hadn’t gone into the theater, I would be a painter.”
“With my background, I came out of the theater.”
“Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it’s really derived of many influences.”
“’Hedwig’ was born in ’94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.”
“I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.”
“I’m afraid to do theater now.”
“I’m supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.”
“Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.”
“The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.”
“As theater artists, it’s a great luxury to have time.”
“Theater is certainly – is my first love, if I had to pick.”
“There’s a romance and power to live theater.”
“The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.”
“The theater is the thing I love doing most.”
“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.”
“Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.”
“What I don’t have in theater is editing.”
“For me, I’ve always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.”
“I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.”
“I was a theater nerd.”
“I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.”
“I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.”
“I got into theater at an early age.”
“I’m such a theater geek.”
“I love theater.”
“I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.”
“My whole life is a theater piece.”
“I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in ‘Macbeth.’”
“The theater is the reason I am an actress.”
“If you can make it in theater, you can make it anywhere.”
“I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.”
“I really did always want to do theater.”
“We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.”
“’Hamilton’ has restored my faith in theater.”
“If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.”
“Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don’t get to do it as much as I would like to.”
“I’ve graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.”
“I want to do theater, TV, movies.”
“Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.”
“Today’s restaurant is theater on a grand scale.”
“If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.”
“I come from a traditional theater background.”
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
“There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.”
“You have to be crazy to do theater.”
“I took a theater class in college and loved it.”
“I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.”
“TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.”
“Theater has always been terrifying to me.”
“I love the theater of me.”
“I had pinned all my hopes on the theater.”
“I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.”
“Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare’s theater.”
“I was definitely a choir and theater geek.”
“This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.”
“I knew I always wanted to major in theater.”
“The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.”
“I’d love to return to theater.”
“There were centuries when civilization had no theater.”
“I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.”
“I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.”
“Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.”
“Musical theater is one of my passions.”
“Theater is hard.”
“I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.”
“Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.”
“I’m obsessed with ‘Rocky.’ We went 13 times to the theater.”
“I’m a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.”
“The drama nerd comes out in me when I’m in a theater.”
“My girlfriend’s a costume designer in the theater.”
“Let’s just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.”
“The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.”
“Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.”
“I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.”
“I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.”
“I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.”
“Actually, I didn’t like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.”
“Thank God for the theater.”
“All terrorism is theater.”
“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.”
“My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.”
“If I wasn’t in the theater, I would be a hermit.”
“I’m very much interested in doing actual theater.”
“There’s hearings on everything. They’re kabuki theater.”
“I think theater communities in cities can form really strong foundations.”
“I’m a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.”
“Theater originated with technology. People forget that.”
“I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.”
“Most theater tells you what to think.”
“All theater is dance.”
“Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.”
“I’m not a playwright; I’m a writer who loves theater.”
“All this thing that L.A. doesn’t have any love for the theater isn’t true.”
“I’m an actor of the theater.”
“Musicals are my favorite. I’m a musical theater buff.”
“We all have an escape. Mine was theater.”
“I’ve found that musical theater is my passion.”
“Theater feeds my heart and soul.”
“My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.”
“I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.”
“I’m from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.”
“I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.”
“People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.”
“I tend to go to the theater a lot. I’ve always loved it.”
“I started a theater company when I was 17.”
“I’m theater trained.”
“I’m very resistant to most forms of theater.”
“For my part, I like live theater best when it’s taut, concentrated and intimate.”
“Journalism as theater is what TV news is.”
“I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.”
“’Cabaret’ was one of the first pieces of musical theater I saw that showed the possibilities of what musical theater can do.”
“I’m an old fashioned theater major at heart.”
“I think theater ought to be theatrical.”
“I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.”
“I like the notion of theater as recreational.”
“Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.”
“In my opinion, theater shouldn’t give advice to citizens.”
“I loved working in the theater.”
“No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.”
“Theater is an amazing outlet.”
“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.”
“When people come into the theater, whether it’s the screen or the stage, they’ve gotta be transported and transformed.”
“I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.”
“There’s something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.”
“I’ve done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.”
“I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I’m in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.”
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