Quotes About Theater

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

I have always had a flair for acting; maybe that's why I enjoyed casting so much.

Between my two girls, Alia showed a natural flair for acting.

When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

I'd really like to do 'Floyd Collins.' I love Adam Guettel.

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

Along with being around the 'Roseanne' stuff, I've been following my mom and my dad back to Steppenwolf.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I'm on Broadway. It's always something I've wanted to be a part of, and I can't believe that this is the experience I'm having.

I was the star of one of the school plays when I was in Year 10. It was 'Bugsy Malone.' There is probably footage of it somewhere.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

I'm an actor first and foremost. But I've also started an organization, Broadway Impact, that advocates for marriage equality. I'm an actorvist.