Quotes About Performance

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I think I've got some more big plays left in me.

I did plays in grade school.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.