Theater Quotes - Page 12

Everything in life is theater.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

I've always loved film more than theater, and film may be more closely related to making a record because you have that ability to go in and do your work and have no judgment around it, and feel honest. Then, much later, it's presented to people. But in theater, people come backstage after a performance and you're about to do the same play again the next night, and people say, "Well, I didn't really believe that emotion" or whatever. It's really hard for me, I like to be closed up and just do the work.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.

I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community.