Quotes About Theater

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.