Quotes About Theater

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.