Quotes About Theater

My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to do film or television in high school.'

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.

I was in theater school playing Lady Macbeth and doing these great dramatic parts, and then I got out into the real world and was auditioning for commercials, and just not getting to do anything that felt remotely meaningful.

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

The theater is magical and addictive.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

I had a complicated home life, and my teachers, predominantly my theater teachers and my English teachers, were very dedicated to taking care of me in a particular way. And in doing so, I think I developed a very easy rapport with people older than myself.

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.

You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.