Quotes About Performance

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate, so we love playing theaters and clubs where the audience has a really good chance to see and hear the group and where the acoustics are good. I like it when we can hear what we're doing.

Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

From the second there was drag, trans people were doing it. And when cis women started being allowed in theaters, then cis women doing drag was part of theater.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

There are so many talented actors in Chicago, I have to go see shows when I'm there. A lot of these actors, who I've seen when I'm in Chicago in theaters, are technically amazing and never have an opportunity to showcase it on a bigger medium.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But for the most part, in terms of, do I want to get recognized on the street? No. There's not much I want about fame.

I fall asleep in theaters, so I try to stay away from them.

You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.

My goal was always to sell out theaters. When it happens you never expect it to be like it is, but you know it feels right.

I'd love to do a play eventually, if theaters ever open again.

I perform in theaters, international stages with people screaming for me, and then I go back to my hotel room, take all my makeup off, and I'm alone.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.