Theater Quotes
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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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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 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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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
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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 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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I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.
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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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This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
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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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They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
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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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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
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Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
