Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old theater quotes, theater sayings, and theater proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.Eartha Kitt
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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.Mary Mccarthy
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Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.Chris Pine
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.Arthur Miller
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.William Ralph Inge
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In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.Reggie Watts
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I think theater is a core need of a community.Sam Underwood
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To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.Scott Caan
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.Paul Rudd
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.Alfred Jarry
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The theater is magical and addictive.Angela Lansbury
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.Irwin Shaw
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Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.Darren Criss
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The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.Patti LuPone
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What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.Goenawan Mohamad
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!Laura Marano
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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.William Ivey Long
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It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.Jason Statham
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.Ralph Fiennes
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.John Eldredge
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.Gore Vidal
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The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.Adrianne Palicki
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.Edward Albee
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Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.Al Pacino
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.Cate Blanchett
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.Rafael Vinoly
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Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.Phylicia Rashad
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.F. Sionil Jose
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.Harvey Fierstein
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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.Eve Ensler