Quotes About Performance

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

The National is the leading theater in the U.K. because it's three big theater spaces in one big building. At any moment you're there, you just know that you're working with people that you're going to be seeing for hopefully the rest of your career.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

I have a passion to do theater.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.