Quotes About Theater

We were all working for 400 dollars a week at the Public Theater and sharing a space downstairs together, so we grew to love each other. That dynamic for me as an original company member is special to me.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

I think, as an actress, it is amazing to shock your audiences.

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

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.

When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'

That's my business, show business.

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

There's no people like show people.

I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

I am in awe of Ruth Draper.

My earliest memories were when my mom would put me in the plays that she was in because she couldn't afford a babysitter... she was part of this theater group.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I believe in 'Backstage.' It changed my life.

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

Both of my parents are actors, so I grew up backstage with them. I would see some of their shows 30, 40, 50 times. I would have it all memorized. I loved it.

I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I felt so fortunate that I knew at the age of like, 12, like this is all I want to do for the rest of my life; that's the only play. There's no backup plan. My mom wanted me to go to school and have a backup plan. I'm like 'No, this is the only plan.'

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

I want to play Miss Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.' Really badly.

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.

My way into everything was through the theater. There are so many plays that I saw growing up that just made me realize that I wanted to be on stage doing that. So it was definitely through ballet, and then stage, and then theater and acting. And then I kind of made my way to film.

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.