Theater Quotes
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“Bread and Puppet Theater got their start protesting the Vietnam War and have ever since been performing at social gatherings where everyone is invited. Quest wanted to be the people's theater of Chicago and Bread and Puppet represents the type of open and accessible art we're going for.
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
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By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.
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Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.
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I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
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I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.
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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
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L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
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Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.
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I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
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I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
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We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
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I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.
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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
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Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.
