Quotes About Theater

My family encouraged me to paint, but I was never allowed to go to the theater. Naturally, this made me interested in the theater.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

I have a particular pair of headphones I love so much I bring them everywhere: Beats Studio. It's perfect for watching movies as well because you feel like you have your own theater with you, even with your iPad.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.

When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to participate in a reading or offer me a show.

I have grown up watching plays at Shivaji Mandir and used to participate in plays in school, too.

Cast parties are a lot of fun!

I met my partner, actor David Elliot, when we were both in the play 'La Ronde' by Arthur Schnitzler.

Looks and age determine whether you play leading ladies or characters. And I'm very happy playing character parts.