Quotes About Theater

We always love actors taking unexpected turns.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again.

I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?

I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'

What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie.

So way back, Jonathan and I were - we were entertainers as kids. We were actors; we did theater, musicals; we ended up getting into commercials and some TV spots. Actually, one of our jobs, we were clowns.

The Room' has just been something that has spread for so many years in such an organic way because, it's just people wanting to share it with their friends and take people to the theater to see it.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.

I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.