Quotes About Theater

the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake.

The man has more masks than a whole troupe of Italian players.

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.

By the time I'm out of makeup, I'm ready to act.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.