Quotes About Theater

I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

It wasn't until I saw 'The Color Purple' on Broadway when I was 15 that I really solidified acting is what I want to do professionally.

The theater community will always remain a big part of my life, and I hope to re-join the cast of 'The Color Purple' at some point down the road.

As an actress who has performed in theater for over 17 years, my experience performing in 'The Color Purple' has been a truly life-changing journey.

Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

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.

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

Maybe I should take more acting classes or pursue a career in that.

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Growing up, I really wanted my own theater company, and I really wanted to do theater, so I was consciously pursuing it.

Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.

On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's a fun boulder, but it's a boulder.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.