Quotes About Theater

When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.

My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

I grew up with gay family members, and I went to a performing arts high school. So I grew up in children's theater, musical theater, and all of my life has been around the LGBT community.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!

Les dieux ont enseigné aux hommes à se contempler eux-mêmes dans le spectacle comme les dieux se contemplent eux-mêmes dans l'imagination des hommes.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

In the world the theater is worship—in Christendom the churches are. Is there a difference?[1] —Søren Kierkegaard

it felt like he was acting a part in a play: other people spoke their lines and he spoke his, and everything that happened and everywhere he went felt unreal somehow, like scripted events unfolding on a stage set

I don't call myself a writer, much as I'd love to be. An author, maybe - the novel 'Voyage' made $870,000. Writer, no. Nor am I an actor. I was never on the stage.

I am a character actor and one of my characters just happens to be a loud, vulgar woman.

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.