Travis Knight Quotes

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Musicals allow a depth of emotion that you don't get in another form of acting, the chord changes, the lyrics really affect people, so that in two hours, you've forgotten about things.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, 'Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.' It was really easy to connect to.

Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.