Quotes About Theater

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

I went to drama school at New York University.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

I came to Broadway through Indiana University.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli OHara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

Technology can't eliminate the need for people going to want to go out and see theater and standup comedy.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.