Playhouse Quotes

#1. I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.

Jamie Anne Allman

#2. This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Maxwell Maltz

#3. I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

Lainie Kazan

#4. I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.

Linden Ashby

#5. There's something about that relationship between actor and audience. Whether you get it on Broadway or in a fine local playhouse, there's no greater drug. Every time I get to do TV, film and a play in the same year, it's my dream come true.

Roger Bart

#6. I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco ... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

Mamie Gummer

#7. The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.

Kenneth Branagh

#8. The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

Dabney Coleman

#9. Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

Charles Lamb

#10. I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#11. I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

Erica Schroeder

#12. When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.

Sid Haig

#13. Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

Peter Fonda

#14. I live in Los Angeles where there is not that much in the way of theatre, so the La Jolla Playhouse is pretty much the only place that is on my radar, and when they have something going on, and I am available, I will certainly go in.

Jimmi Simpson

#15. I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

Mary Steenburgen

#16. 'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.

Terrence McNally

#17. The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#19. It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

Neil Young

#20. Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it ... There's gonna be haters.

Justin Bieber

#21. I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.

Akshay Kumar

#22. Every proposal to seek authorization elsewhere than in the gospel itself must lead us astray. The

Lesslie Newbigin

#23. The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Jonathan Swift

#24. By then Geoffrey's threadbare soul had been left far behind standing by the side of the highway. Did he feel anything anymore? Warm? Cold? Watching after them, mouth open as if to call out; did he wish at the last moment to have done life differently?

B.P. Gregory

#25. Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.

Anthony Burgess

#26. To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers

Alain Badiou

#27. Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing.

Raymond Radiguet

#28. Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

John De Ruiter