Quotes About Theater

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

Get in theater, really work your craft. Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.

For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.

Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

No one else has performed in a play after they've died, and I want to be the first person to do it.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.