Quotes About Theater

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

I dont think anyone is going to toss me into a classical show.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.

I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.

I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

Statt Klopapier und Nudeln sollten die Menschen lieber Kultur hamstern. Ich hoffe sehr, dass unsere Supermärkte für geistige Nahrung bald wieder öffnen!

An empty theater is a promise unfulfilled.In a few hours, everything around him would be light and noise. Laughter and applause. Colorful people packed together in their colorful finery. Tonight, the promise would be fulfilled. And then, after the curtain came down and the gaslights were snuffed out, there would be darkness again. That was the beauty of it. That was theater.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

We saw The Man From La Mancha, and I remember there was a scene where the woman's skirt fell off, and I got embarrassed and excited at the same time.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.