Quotes About Performance

Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story propels you through in such a way that feels organic.

I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until I was in college for theater school in Boston that I realized I can actually start going to open mics and figuring this out.

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

My whole life is a theater piece.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

I was kind of lucky that I had done so much theater over the years, because basically a sitcom is kind of like a hybrid between a film and a play.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't want 'musical theater' to be a dismissive term. I want it to be something that people can be proud of, that people can say, 'Look at the possibilities.'

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.