Quotes About Theater

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

The theater was my mother and my father.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.