Quotes About Theater

This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.

My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

I have a gym membership, but that's always been more about muscle building for roles.

I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. So you do have to be resourceful and be able to flex your muscles artistically.

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration, we'd go to the theater.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.