Quotes About Theater

I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you're confronting those issues in a way that's safer for your psyche.

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

'Rent' opened up my heart, my senses. I was never the same. I hadn't been back in that place in the same way since. 'Hamilton' put me back in that place.

I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.

Teaching theater, I felt very lucky. In a world where there's few options for someone who graduates with a theater degree, trying to figure out how to make rent and pay the bills, I always gravitated towards teaching jobs and things like that. I wanted to stay close to my passion as well.

I think 'Rent' will run forever.

There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.

My first professional set was 2014, and it was for a show called 'Bob Servant' for BBC Scotland. I was working in theater for Dundee Rep Theatre doing 'Hecuba,' and I also got this other job, 'Bob Servant.' It was only three days filming.

Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.

If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it every night.

Live stage shows cannot be replaced.

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

I love theater. You can't replicate the live format.

Though I hunt for anything that is different, I am looking forward to play some historical characters and the role of Gladiator.

My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.