26 Movie Quotes about Theater (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 15, 2026

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

Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1940)

5 Elephants? I thought the midgets were gonna play the elves. -Nah. They wanna play the polar bears. -Actors!

Ethel Merman as Lilly Loraine in Rudolph and Frosty: Christmas in July

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 Hey, you old war horse. You look terrific. Just like the lights of Broadway on a dark night.

Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945)

26 Movie Quotes about Theater (+ Sound Clips)

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