Theater Quotes - Page 15

• I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

  Zac Efron

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  Zac Efron

  Artist, Singing, Musical

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Children, Cities

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• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Queens, Children, School

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Musical, Albums, Musical Theater

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• There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Silly, Character, People

  "Some Actors Work Both Sides of a Script". Interview with Jason Zinoman, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

  Omar Epps

  Way, Film, Spots

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• The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

  Paul Feig

  People, Matter, Hard

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• I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

  Paul Feig

  Drama, Michigan, Clubs

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• 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

  Mean, Night, Let It Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Ideas, Plot, Stories

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Heart, Way

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Together, Rooms

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• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  Larry Flynt

  Thinking, Fire, Justice

  "Larry Flynt on sex and presidents" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

  Michael J. Fox

  Player, Night, People

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• The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

  Annette Funicello

  Children, Clubs, Mickey

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• I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

  Jennifer Garner

  Dancer, Ballet, Musical

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• I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

  William Gibson

  Blade Runner, Able, Way

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• I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

  Mickey Gilley

  Morning, Years, Best Year

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• Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

  Philip Johnson

  Moving, Men, Space

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• As a kid, I had a background in theater.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Kids, Backgrounds

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?

  Anna Kendrick

  Jobs, People, Want

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• I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.

  Anna Kendrick

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• 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

  Television, Want, Film

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• It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

  Nicole Kidman

  Dark, People, Want

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 08, 2016

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