Quotes About Theater

Acting, for me, is a process of metamorphosis. It's about forgetting who I am and becoming someone entirely new.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.

Acting is not at all my forte.

Acting is not my forte.

Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

I've never found acting that difficult.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

I think theater communities in cities can form really strong foundations.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.

My family is very excited about me doing Anne Frank.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

Frankly speaking, I feel anyone who starts acting, be it in theater, TV, or even advertisements, is looking at Bollywood.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.

Growing up in the Raleigh theater scene was a big factor in developing the ability, which I have now, to be freely me.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

In high school, I tried out for every sport there was. But none of them would have me. When I was a freshman, someone asked me to go audition for a play with them. I got in and didn't want to do anything else for the next four years.

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.