Quotes About Theater

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I started with theater when I was 9 years old and then got into television when I was 16, but I would say my first big break was 'Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas', a telenovela that was very successful all across Latin America.

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

Meeting with the director is an audition.

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

I agree to play a character if I feel that as an audience member, it will entertain me.

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something. I used to force older members of my family to watch the plays and younger members of my family to be characters in the plays - and my personal favorite was Batman.

When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head.

If I could go into a time machine and be in my 20s again and do 'Flora the Red Menace,' I would. That was always the one. I mean, have they done that? I don't think so. No one's done that show. That was sort of a dream role of mine.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

'The Little Mermaid' is my favorite of the Disney animated features. And, I could not wait to see it on Broadway.

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.