Quotes About Plays

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free.

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

Coach Pederson, for me, the communication we have is clear, and it's an open line. He really respects my opinion on plays. If I'm feeling something... he instills a lot of confidence in me. That is huge.

I'm a competitor, and there's always some plays I'm going to look back on and want to have back.

I tried the swimming team, but nobody came to the matches. But they did show up for the plays.

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

I am all about the arts and whenever I go to New York, London or Sydney I check out the latest plays, musicals and concerts. It is an obsession for me!

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.

The entertainment industry is humungous, and people have so many choices right now - they can watch web series, movies, stand-up comedies, and plays.

Preparation occurs in the week before the game, and continues during the game as you notice trends and talk to the coaches when you're on the sidelines. And it continues right up to the snap, putting yourself in a position to make plays.

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.