Theater Quotes
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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
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You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.
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I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.
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I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
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A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
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I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
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It's as if these dogs are putting on theater.
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The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.
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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
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I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.
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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
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If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
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Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
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Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
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I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
