Theatre Quotes

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

~ Justin Timberlake

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

~ Kevin James

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

~ Matt Ross

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

~ Nicolas Roeg

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

~ Yahoo Serious

If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.

~ Brian Dennehy

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

~ Jim Henson

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

~ Don Bluth

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

~ Jim Henson

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

~ Lee Hall

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

~ Sarah Bernhardt

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

~ Simon Mcburney

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

~ Debra Messing

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

~ Maggie Smith

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

~ Viola Davis

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

~ Gail Godwin

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.

~ Peter Capaldi

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

~ Jim Parsons