Quotes About Community

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

The National is the leading theater in the U.K. because it's three big theater spaces in one big building. At any moment you're there, you just know that you're working with people that you're going to be seeing for hopefully the rest of your career.

I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.