Maurice Jarre Quotes

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.

I started a theater company when I was 17.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

I love working in the theater.

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

You can only do so much theatre.

I think there is no world without theatre.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Theater is hard.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.