19 Movie Quotes about Theater (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about theater, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What? That's not in the play!

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 He does these impersonations. You'd think it was the real people.

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas

3 We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions.

Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

4 Um, why are you whispering? -It's for dramatic emphasis.

Steve Whitmire as Rizzo The Rat; Dave Goelz as The Great Gonzo in The Muppet Christmas Carol

5 Why he's a natural born actor, eh, Giddy?

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1940)

6 I'm chicken. What light through yonder window breaks? It is the exit for all us chickens. So exit, cluckin' all the way, stage left.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

7 A hamlet by any other name is still a ham.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

8 Exit, stage right, or is it stage fright?

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

9 Well, the show's over. The boy got the girl. Shall we go?

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

10 Oh, no. This is a motion picture, a play. You mustn't take yourself so seriously.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hercules in Hercules In New York

19 Movie Quotes about Theater (+ Sound Clips)

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