Quotes About Art

My whole life is a theater piece.

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

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

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

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 see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.

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.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I have done a lot of theater.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.