Quotes About Theater

I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them - I did everything else: everything but act.

I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But for the most part, in terms of, do I want to get recognized on the street? No. There's not much I want about fame.

I finished high school and college - I actually moved to New York to study film - and was always working in theaters and studying. You never stop learning.

I fall asleep in theaters, so I try to stay away from them.

You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.

My goal was always to sell out theaters. When it happens you never expect it to be like it is, but you know it feels right.

I'd love to do a play eventually, if theaters ever open again.

I perform in theaters, international stages with people screaming for me, and then I go back to my hotel room, take all my makeup off, and I'm alone.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

I want to keep doing interesting work with interesting people in whatever form that may take, but I want to play the big parts of classical theatre; I want to go on stage and play great Shakespearean roles and, at the same time, do amazing, challenging indie films and comedy, and I want to do it all. I am greedy.

I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

My dream really is just to keep working in film and in theatre.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.