Quotes About Theater

My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.

My acting chops are awful.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

When I'm on stage, I do very much feel like I'm Cinderella, which is kind of how I deal with it.

I don't go to the cinema much.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?

You know when you have a party as a kid, and your mom hires a fairy, princess, or superhero to come host the party? I was Fairy Lavender. I loved it. It was good training for theater.

I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.

This was a seminal moment in my life - my dad took me to see the original production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at the Palace Theatre in 1973. I thought it was just amazing, so powerful. The idea of using rock music to tell the story of Jesus was incredible.

My great heartbreak was completely botching my callback for Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar' in college.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.

With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.