Quotes About Theater

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.

My music teacher who I was really close with, she helped me out a lot being away from home and going to school in Rhode Island. She was like a mother to me on campus. But she was the theater teacher and she didn't have anyone to play Aladdin, so she asked me if I would.

I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I never play without my cape.

I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

You have to be careful with Vikram around otherwise he would eat you alive with his acting!

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

I used to love auditioning. I loved going into the room and meeting casting directors.

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

I do find acting cathartic.

Never get caught acting.

I definitely caught acting bug.

Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even before the movie. Great guy. We've done theater and stage plays together, Lincoln Center and all kinds of things.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

I really enjoy playing a challenging role.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.