Quotes About Theater

It is not so much that subjectivity is communicated or expressed by music as that in it, as in a theater, something objective is enacted, the identifiable face of which has been obliterated. It is rather that the orchestra plays within musical consciousness than that a consciousness is projected onto the orchestra.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.

The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage

The theater in which God has chosen to meet rational creatures quietly is the inward realm of conscience, moral reasoning, prayer, and study, especially study of the revealed Word.

Democracy, on this new occasion, finds all Kings conscious that they are but Play-actors.

One thing he'd learned in ten years on the New York Stage was this: don't make friends with the man who plays Hamlet; make friends with the man who pays Hamlet.

Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.

The stage is near and dear to me.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the plays.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play.

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind the old argument of, 'It needs to be bankable, so we can't put all these people of color in the show.' We are bankable.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

Neil and I have always been big fans of drag, emerging theater, and anything that is really 'out there' in terms of performance.

A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.

I was crying because I was making my Broadway debut and there's nothing like that. It's the absolute mountaintop for a nerd like me that's loved it forever.

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.