Quotes About Theater

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

Broadway is really my life.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.