Quotes About Theater

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

I have touched all genres, be it comedy, tragedy or negative roles.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.

Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash.

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

I like the idea of raising a kid in my trailer. My mother was an actress. I grew up in theater with her in Brazil. I would play with set dolls. And I loved it.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.

We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it.

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.