Quotes About Theater Directors

#1. When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars ... even people ... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.

Nicole Richie

#2. I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

Diego Luna

#3. I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Kate Bush

#4. I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Janine Turner

#5. The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Joan Fontaine

#6. I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Lesley Manville

#7. A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

Hugh Jackman

#8. I had to admit, my little Accord hadn't looked all that great next to the Benzes and Rolls in that garage to begin with, but now that it'd been turned into a mobile tribute to the artistic rendering of Lil' Loco, it stuck out like a Cracker Jack ring in a a Tiffany display.

Marcia Clark

#9. Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing ... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

Campbell Scott

#10. All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

#11. There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

Rhetta Hughes

#12. Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.

Susanna White

#13. A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and did real plays. You put our plays up against any theater troupe of any age, and they usually did pretty damn well.

Jello Biafra

#14. I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

Hugh Jackman

#15. Not my fault you're distractingly pretty.

Katja Millay

#16. When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

David McCullough

#17. I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

Frank Oz

#18. School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations.

Victor Miller

#19. The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

Eric Stoltz

#20. Why do I feel like I don't care what you feel like?

Colleen Hoover

#21. In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.

Jonathan Groff

#22. The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

Gary Johnson

#23. One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Peter Kreeft

#24. I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

Garry Hynes

#25. There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.

James Baldwin