Quotes About Theater

A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

This acting was very hard work.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I so find Harold Pinter and David Mamet's writing to be exciting, and obviously there aren't that many female - at least with Mamet, there aren't that many good female roles. But I always thought it would be interesting to play one of the guy roles.

All the London critics, including Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson, came down to Bristol to see 'The Crucible'.

I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

I think, in all this race and competition, we actors forget how to have fun.

Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.

I think 'Hair' is the kind of show that benefits from the live experience - it needs to be seen and heard.

I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed.

You're in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It's like when you first have your heart broken.

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

I was always the second heavy.

I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.

To have 'In The Heights' be my first show in New York after moving here, I remember feeling at the time like, you know, 'It doesn't get any better than this.'

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

I care about actors, and I understand them in a very personal way. I'm not saying every writer has to do that, but in my case, it's been helpful. I can put myself into the scene and think, 'What would it be like to act this?' Any writer who's really good probably does that to some extent.

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.