Quotes About Theater

I've got quite a low voice, so it's not your typical musical theater voice, but I do love musicals; they're a very different experience.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.

I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony.

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' 'Smash' is the ultimate. I love it because I'm all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you're not learning the dance moves.

The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

London has such an unbelievable respect for theater, where L.A. does not. You go to a play here, and the dude next to you is sleeping. In London, if you're not in your seat when it starts, they lock the door. In Los Angeles, you can stroll into school late with a cup of coffee. In London, you get your butt to class on time.

Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.

I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.

If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.