Quotes About Theater

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

I got my Equity card playing Helena in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' and I think that's the first job I got that was an offer.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

Acting was my first love before music.

I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.

Theater is certainly - is my first love, if I had to pick.

My first love is acting, not directing.

Theatre is my first love.

I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I always say that I've grown little flaps on a stage and I've got these little gills that open, because on the stage I'm in my element and I'm like a fish that's come out when I'm on land, which is filming. I'm never quite as comfortable as I am on the stage.

In terms of comedy, I never did five-minute sets or clubs or anything. I just started doing shows. Coming from that theater background, it never crossed my mind that I should start doing five-minute sets.

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.