Quotes About Theater

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

My early acting was ingenue stuff.

I never played an ingenue.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

My last show that I did on Broadway was - I hate to say this, but - 'Cats.' There you go. So I was doing 'Cats' on Broadway, and I injured my back. It was a really tough show.

I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.

I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.

Rather nostalgically, I sometimes think I could still play Juliet. Inside, I'm still an incorrigible romantic.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

My first love and my first instinct are acting.

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

I've always been in institutional theater.

The script of a play is not a finished product: It's a set of instructions.

NSD gave me the vision to see further and they exposed me to integrated works, right from working on the backstage to even doing the costumes.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.

I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.