Quotes About Theater

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.

I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.