Quotes About Theater

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

I love Broadway musicals, but there's a lot that I want to do.

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

I love musicals more than anything.

I do like musicals, but I'm not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have a song in them, like someone has a cabaret number.

I did three musicals in high school.

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never thought I would be writing one.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

I never got interested in musicals.

We should be so grateful for musicals, and the amount of work that goes into these shows is easily comparable to things I've been in at the National and the RSC. Why do we think it is less important?.

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

When I'm not working, I don't mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I'm more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I've got a lot of friends who are actors so even when I don't have auditions of my own, I'll be working on someone else's scenes with them.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

Acting is a mysterious process.

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

Sometimes you catch people's eyes during the show, which is horrible and awkward. I can always see the people in the front row, and sometimes you get people who are fast asleep. Maybe they had a long day at work, but that's an expensive nap.