Quotes About Theater

I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.

Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That's way down the list, my friend.

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

I'm a super theater nerd.

I was a theater nerd.

I was a music theater nerd in high school.

I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

I'll never forget seeing 'Guys and Dolls' over and over. I used to sit up in the coliseum watching this magnificent musical. Brilliant.

I've done panto down the years, I love that. So never say never for anything.

I will never stop performing on stage.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called 'Jerusalem' and that really changed the game for me.

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.