Quotes About Theater

I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.

I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

In school productions, I was always villager No. 7. I was never at the front of the stage dancing and never had any lines.

I've enjoyed lots of productions, and it's always been down to the actors I've been working with.

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I'd be safe.

Acting is only my profession.

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.