Quotes About Theater

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor.

I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

When I was in high school, I fell in love with Olivia Hussey in 'Romeo And Juliet.'

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.

There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study class once a week. It was started by Charles Bernard and myself. We meet at the theater.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants, and jeans kind of gal; I dress really simply and comfortably. But one of the things I love about being an actor is that I get to wear amazing costumes.

That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.