Quotes About Theater

If you're known as a dramatic actor it helps you a lot. Even though to me it's simpler, it leaves a deeper impression on the public.

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

that acting was truthful emotions in false circumstances.

Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a lamp; not a woman, but a woman. To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

was this theater or Judaism? Or just an unconscious attempt to bring the cramped city-apartment ambience back to our holidays?

Así era: una habitación en el hotel de la familia Guterman era, para la mayoría de aquellos criollos pretenciosos, la única oportunidad de ver el mundo, el único papel de importancia que podían tener en su minúscula obrita de teatro.

que éste era un país donde un hombre manda la parada por el hecho de venir del norte; que para la mitad de sus huéspedes, pomposos y arribistas, estar en el hotel era de alguna manera estar en el extranjero. Así era: una habitación en el hotel de la familia Guterman era, para la mayoría de aquellos criollos pretenciosos, la única oportunidad de ver el mundo, el único papel de importancia que podían tener en su minúscula obrita de teatro.

Si hay algo que un profesional del quirófano teme es a los vips.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen," Harriet said. "There's an evil queen?" Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. "Of course," Harriet replied. "Every good play has an evil queen." Frances actually raised her hand. "And a un—" "Don't say it," Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed.

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

The first time I really had an influence on a show was during 'Ragtime.' It's still the most magical show that I've ever done.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater.

I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.

I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.