Quotes About Theater

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I met my wife, Doreen, who was a dancer in the show.

Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

I am not into method acting.

I don't believe in method acting.

There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.

I am not that big a method actor.

I'm a method actor.

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

In 'Of Mice And Men' I play a straight dramatic role and I'm the only female in the play.

I went to Bard College for a year. And then, even though I didn't think I should give my blood to the theater, I did go to N.Y.U., which is where I met Michael McKean.

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.

I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I got a bigger role. Then, in 7th grade, I played Smike in 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and the casting director saw me and asked me to audition for a movie. That movie led to me getting 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

Being on 'Grease: Live' was a massive mile marker. It ultimately led me to 'Hamilton.'

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

Going into Hamilton' already was mind-blowing enough because I hadn't really done much before that.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called 'Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.