Theater Quotes

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

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

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

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

I have a passion to do theater.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.