Theater Arts Quotes

I love working in New York theater.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.

So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

I like everything about acting.

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

I would love to do something dramatic. I don't know if anybody will ever give me the chance, but I would love to try it. I'm trained in acting and spent many years working on it, so it's just a matter of opportunity.

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.

There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that he has to change and do the most amazing work.

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

When I got the appetite for more and more theatre, all I could think of was trying to get back to New York.

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.