Quotes About Theater

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.

I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

Everyone has those times when you feel like you don't fit in. Everyone struggles to a certain extent with being cool and popular, but I never really let it affect me. I played sports and did theater, and school was really important to me. I had fun in high school.

I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don't really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it's not really my personality when I'm working.

For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.