Quotes About Theater

I did theater when I was younger, and I'm not the best actor ever - I haven't done it in a long time - but hey, if an opportunity presented itself, I would take it!

Ordinarily, when you go to see a play, an awful lot is presented in front of your eyes.

I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.

Acting was in my instincts, I presume.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

I try to ignore the Tonys buzz as much as possible. It's wonderful to be thought of that way, but I have to kind of pretend it's not happening so I can keep focus. It's about the work I'm doing, and it's more than enough to come away knowing that people are changed when they leave the theater.

I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'