At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. (Quote by - Peter Stone)

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. (Quote by - Alvin Ailey)

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get. (Quote by - Juliet Mills)

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. (Quote by - Ted Shackelford)

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for. (Quote by - Erika Slezak)

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic. (Quote by - Philip Seymour Hoffman)

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio. (Quote by - Frank Rich)

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people. (Quote by - Rene Auberjonois)

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. (Quote by - Vincent Schiavelli)

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

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. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything. (Quote by - Sanaa Lathan)

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can. (Quote by - Blair Underwood)

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again. (Quote by - Jerome Lawrence)

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. (Quote by - Alan Rickman)

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!' (Quote by - Jason Dohring)

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television. (Quote by - Eartha Kitt)

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater. (Quote by - Antoinette Perry)

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read. (Quote by - Patricia Heaton)

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. (Quote by - Laurence Olivier)

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films. (Quote by - Kate Winslet)

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. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago. (Quote by - Kel Mitchell)