Quotes About Theater

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another , and you get to really be so connected with it.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, 'I can do this. It's fun.' I wanted to go for it, and I thought I'd like to make a living doing this.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that I just clung to.

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.