Quotes About Performance

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

I want tap to be something danced in arenas. Sort of like a rock group. Other art forms happen every night. Take theater, opera; there's always opera happening every night.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging.

I would love to do some theater.

Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it all. I've been shot out of cannons. I know what the people want. I'm out there with the people.

The beauty of film is that you can get closer than you can in theater, you know? I come from theater, and I remember feeling like I was almost cheating when I would put the camera so close to somebody's face when I was filming them.

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.