Quotes About Theater

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

The show was called 'Jean-Paul Sartre and Ringo.' Bonnie Hunt was in the cast and she made the biggest impression on me. That show just blew me away. I couldn't believe these people were doing this. So that had a big effect on me.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

I'm not an improv guy.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I was going to do theater and Broadway and stuff.

If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.

Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

In wrestling, I don't consider it acting because it's improv.

Jokers' is an improv show in disguise.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

A good play can teach so much about culture. One can also improvise a lot with the medium and use it to teach kids.

I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.