Quotes About Theater

The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.

Surprise is a huge element in acting.

Theater school is essentially like training. It's boot camp. It's like an academy to put you through all these different situations that sometimes are more extreme than what you'll come across in the field. But now you're emotionally prepared for it so that when it does happen, it's not a big surprise.

Surprise is something that's very difficult to act.

It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take on a role within a theater company as a writer and director. I found to my surprise that I really enjoyed it as well.

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.

No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

Gertrude's Secret' is highly entertaining. Some of the monologues are very funny, some very surprising and some painful.

A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid not to be shy.

There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should.

Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theater curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

He looked up rather sadly. "So would I. So would we all. But show business has always been like that—any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard—well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights.

Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans.

Wade Coenen poured her a glass of brandy. 'Theater,' he said. 'Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans.

Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans. -- Wade Coenen in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

She was exploiting the maximum amount of drama out of taking off her clothes. It made me think of Hamlet.

When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.