Quotes About Theater

It never occurred to me that one could just buy tickets to the Tonys. I figured you had to be invited.

Selling tickets at the Bing Theater at LACMA was my first job in L.A.

The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there and auditioned just like everybody else. They hired me for 'Hairspray' to help sell tickets for a few weeks, but I ended up being there much longer than originally planned and started to carve a niche for myself.

You cannot stage plays to make money. That's quite impossible until our people start spending more on tickets.

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

I always think with new musicals, buying tickets is always a gamble.

Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.

I don't like the term 'dinner as theater,' because that implies something thespian that I don't want to tie into this, but there are plenty of times that people go out to dinner because they want to have an experience. There are, however, probably many more times that people go out to eat because it's 7 o'clock and it's time to eat.

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

For a while, I was all sports all the time. Then, as I started to get into theater, they dropped away, but I hung on tight with a highly competitive Ultimate Frisbee team. It was probably less intense than I remember, but it was fun.

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

Sabes lo que somos? Somos actores torpes representando una obra aburrida en el escenario decrépito de un teatro desierto.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

Be the person I'm playing. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

SARAH BERNHARDT

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.