Quotes About Theater

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

I really love being in a room and developing work.: being at the table, looking at the script for the first time, and putting a story on its feet.

In the back of my mind, when we were developing 'Next to Normal,' I always heard Alice Ripley.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

I like a lot of good dialogue if it is well-acted.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

Believe me, you're shooting dice every time you do a part.

When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean the show's been rather a success.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

I'm here to play different characters.

I want to play many different characters.

I love playing different characters.

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

At the end of the day I can't change myself. It's only different characters that I play. And in those it should not be me, Atul Kulkarni, it should be the character that is being played by Atul Kulkarni.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

Generally, I travel with my own cast to stage plays in different countries.