Quotes About Theater

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being a defining aspect of who you are or how you act.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

I talk about myself too much - but isnt that the definition of an actor?

I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.

I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.

Most of my experience in theater while I lived in Delhi was outside of college.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special and unique - depending on the performance and the show. That really kind of helped me develop my love of theater.

My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for 'Once on This Island,' but we've worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

I wasn't sure what it would take to make it in the theater, but despite the struggle, that was all I ever really wanted.