Quotes About Drama

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.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.

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

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

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.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'

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

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

I would love to do some theater.

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.

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

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.

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.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

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

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.