Quotes About Engagement

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I remember being interested in theater when I was in school, but I wasn't always engaged in making it a career. I was a cheerleader in Texas, but I tore my ACL, so I was out for the rest of the season. That's when I started putting more of my passion into theater.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

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.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

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 industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

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

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

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

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

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

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

I'd rather do smaller theaters, because it's more fun for the audience and more fun for me. I like to build up demand.