Quotes About Theater

I like to do the whole gamut of emotions on stage - big crying, shouting, hair-pulling.

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they're laughing or crying - that's what makes me happy.

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.

My first assignment was a curtain-puller for 'The Curious Savage.'

Trust is front and center in the working of this production, and it's conceivable there is a harder-working team of theater practitioners than the 'Cursed Child' company, but if there are, I'd like to meet them.

As an actor, you know that every act has a closing curtain.

I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I'd love to tackle a classic Shakespeare play or take on Nora Helmer in 'A Doll's House.' Musical theater, it's the classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate.' I'm much more a Julie Andrews-type soprano than an Idina Menzel.