Quotes About Theater

Shows I would love to do one day are definitely In the Heights' and Spring Awakening,' with Nina and Wendla, respectively, as my top dream roles.

My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit.

I'm from St. Louis and grew up going to The Muny.

I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to go for the health field, where there were stable jobs.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

I was born to be on the stage.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I love the stage.

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

I didn't always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I never acted as a child. My parents were stage people.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

I'm most at home on the stage.

The joy of being a chameleon on stage is that you can be anything, and yet you're not any of those things as well.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

A lot of actors will complain about the green screen work, but what you do get to do is what you probably should have learned, from the beginning, on stage. You have to create it in your mind and really go there to bring it. Part of the fun of acting is those challenges. You feel goofy, but sometimes that's a good feeling.

For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.

Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.