Quotes About Theater

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Any increase in surveillance of marginalized communities for the sake of security theater have expanded the cycle of criminalization that queer people - especially queer people of color - are forced to navigate.

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.

People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.