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I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into. — Jeff Daniels

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it. — John Glover

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life. — Jonathan Banks

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater. — Estelle Parsons

I love life. I love the live theater. — Chita Rivera

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life. — Finn Wittrock

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing. — Taylor Schilling

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens. — D. A. Pennebaker

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life. — Athol Fugard

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. — Arthur Miller

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect. — Nicolas Billon

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater. — Zachary Levi

Then the curtain rises, and you will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me. — Charlotte Bronte

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. — Robert Wilson

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? — Patrick Stewart

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Everything in life is theater. — Margo Jones

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. — Michael Moriarty

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price ... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims. — Kelley Armstrong

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death! — Mimi Kennedy

I can't imagine my life without doing theater. — Thomas Sadoski

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic. — Philip Baker Hall

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way. — Antonin Artaud

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium. — Suzan-Lori Parks

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty ... for a slice of real life, there's always the Kessler. — Ben Fountain

Life is a theater, you can choose to play the part of the strong, determined, winner or the weak, fearful loser. The choice is yours. — Stella Oladiran

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater. — Bryan Batt

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion. — Cynthia Heimel

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater. — John Wilmot

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo. — William Shakespeare

Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God. — Eugene H. Peterson

Life is theater; everyone is an actor - some in the lead, some in the supporting cast. — Ryan Blair

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. — Irwin Shaw

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life. — Elia Kazan

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. — Michael Caine

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. — W.S. Gilbert

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. — Antonin Artaud

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it. — Marian Seldes

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one. — Mignon McLaughlin

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life. — Alicia Keys

life is like theater — William Shakespeare

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater. — Luchino Visconti

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning. — Megan Hilty

The theater has been called the pulse of the people. — Abigail Adams

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless. — Beah Richards

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. — Vik Sahay

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life. — Michael Musto

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies. — Alan Rickman

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life. — Josh Young

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines. — Adrienne Shelly

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. — George Santayana

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets. — Eric Carle

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater. — Charlie Kaufman

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world. — Robert Krulwich

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that. — Matthew Lillard

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life. — Natalie Clifford Barney

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear? — Moms Mabley

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world. — Arthur Miller

Death is a theater, full of everyone you've ever met, watching a real-time replay of your life, with your every thought narrated out loud. — Fran Krause

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. — Sean O'Casey

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it. — Thornton Wilder

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.' — Lilla Crawford

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to. — Jim Parsons

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater. — Cary Elwes

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size. — Laurence Olivier

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life. — Loni Anderson

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion. — Tom Althouse