Quotes About Art

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I love theater.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West End or Broadway. The Market concerns itself with theater of this country, for this country.

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

We did a lot of stuff just in theaters and we started putting it on the Internet.

'Last House' offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that.

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

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