Quotes About Theater

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

That period, doing 'Angels in America' in '94 and then filming with 'Basquiat' in '95, those were gateway years for me as an artist. Two gateways, one into the film industry and one into the world of theater, each formative to me in different, equally essential ways.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

'Sleepy Hollow' was really the first thing I'd done that gave me the opportunity in the modern age to build an authentic relationship with an audience that was a lot more like what happens in theater.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'

I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.