Quotes About Theater

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.

'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.

I like 'Rocky Horror.'

I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror.

A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

Acting is my passion, but I like hosting shows, too.

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

People who win awards for drama and for crying their eyes out for two hours... it's easy!

The only critic is a full house.

I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.

I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

I have never ever hung out with actors and comedians. I can't stand it.

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross