Theater Quotes
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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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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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The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
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I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.
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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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In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
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I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
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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 is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
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When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
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I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.
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I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.
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I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old.
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I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.
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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
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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 happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.
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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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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
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In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
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I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.
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I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.
