Theater Quotes
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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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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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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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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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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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The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.
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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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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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Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.
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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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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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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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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.
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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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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
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The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
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I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.
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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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My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
