Theater Quotes
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My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.
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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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The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.
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There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
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I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
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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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We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.
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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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I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
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Theater has always been terrifying to me.
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Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
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It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
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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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I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
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I hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to all of them. The fact that this was a small film without much money and without much time made it rich in energy and momentum and drive when we were actually making it 'cause that's all you've got. You've just got the story and the people.
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My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.
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I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.
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I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
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I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
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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.
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The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.
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I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
