Quotes About Theater

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ensemble. In fact, I was in eight Broadway shows as a dancer. Seven of them were original shows. That's how I learned to create something from the ground up.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show.

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's certainly in the blood.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

My background was in performing originally.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.