Quotes About Performance

I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.

Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It's a morning to midnight profession.

The first perk of theater is the girls.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.

I've always loved film more than theater.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

All theater is dance.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.