Quotes About Theater

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.

Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close to musical theater because it is always telling a story.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

I had left 'Ragtime' - and 'Ragtime' was a completely different beast, no pun intended, than 'The Lion King'.

You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

I think I'll never stop doing theater because it's a more physical and athletic activity. You can't pull any punches; there are no short cuts, and you have to be physically present and committed. I love the excitement and the response of being in front of a live audience.

We've all seen so many plays where there's brilliant acting and suddenly there's so many dreadful punches that it takes you out of the moment, or somebody does some bit of violence that jars.

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

When I was younger, I definitely thought musical theater was sort of more pure than film. I used to say I'd never go to film because we had to get it right the first time in musical theater. But then, of course, I started doing film and realized I loved it. Keep in mind that I was 8 years old when I said that.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.