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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York. — Laura San Giacomo

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies. — Jerzy Grotowski

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies. — Thomas Ian Griffith

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it. — Rafael Vinoly

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. — Richard Selzer

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. — Moss Hart

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. — Marc Chagall

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are. — Katee Sackhoff

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along. — Ansel Elgort

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood. — Carl Weathers

In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing. — Cindy Marcus

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater. — Sarah Jessica Parker

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old. — Sam Rockwell

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program. — Jeffrey Donovan

Theater has been my way of learning about everything. — Seth Numrich

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me. — Asghar Farhadi

I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community. — Katherine McNamara

I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile. — Indira Varma

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies. — Sara Paxton

Theater is hard. — Paul Dano

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving. — Adam Rapp

The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom — Desson Thomson

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me. — Charles Nelson Reilly

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. — W. H. Auden

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine

You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul. (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater) — Kristen Britain

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. — William Ralph Inge

I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it. — Rosanna Pansino

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance. — Harvey Fierstein

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work. — Ben Vereen

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. — Lady Gaga

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started. — Valerie Azlynn

Everything in life is theater. — Margo Jones

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater. — BD Wong

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto. — Scott Speedman

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater. — Marina Abramovic

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny. — Charlie Day

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. — Anna Deavere Smith

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work. — Armand Assante

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star. — Sherry Stringfield

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded. — Susan Sontag

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater. — Stephanie Zimbalist

I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater. — Sophia Loren

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it. — William Monahan

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there. — Peter Hall

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater. — Zac Efron

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually. — Paul Dano

I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous. — Wes Craven

I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again. — Michael Frayn

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project. — Tatyana Ali

There was something strangely naked about it, like we were on a stage set, playing our parts to an audience of eyes out there in the wood. — Ruth Ware

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director. — Jason Alexander

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor. — Tim Daly

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater. — Jim Parsons

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job. — Brian Baumgartner

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages. — Ruth Wilson

One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him. — Rob McClure

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. — Eve Ensler

life is like theater — William Shakespeare

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ... — Vernon Lee

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational. — Connie Britton

The weary guests are asked to leave the warmth of the all-night theater, having slept on pictures others only dream on. — Tony Banks

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. — Rob Lowe

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment. — Lily James

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in. — Gavin O'Connor

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world. — Carrie Brownstein

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. — Harold Prince

I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights. — Adam Driver

I'm afraid to do theater now. — John Corbett

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere ... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. — Alona Tal

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! — Christian Louboutin

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way. — William Moseley

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me. — John Barrymore

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. — Alan Rickman

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. — Tracy Letts

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. — Roman Polanski

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal. — Asghar Farhadi

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. — Ridley Scott

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned. — Kurt Fuller

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community. — Rob McClure

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people. — David Binder

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else. — Lena Olin

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater. — Kate Burton

Exit, pursued by a bear. — William Shakespeare

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really. — Karen Allen

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program. — Thomas Middleditch

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. — Stanley Tucci

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater. — Brenda Blethyn

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me. — Peter Hermann

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater. — Frank Rich

Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer. — Michael Riedel