theater skills Quotes

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from doing student theater. I was a stage manager. I was an assistant stage manager. I was on the running crew. I did probably 25 shows at Northwestern - all musicals, of course.

Unlike movies, on stage there are no second chances. Everything is live. If someone messes up, forgets a line, gives the wrong cue, you need to have the presence of mind to move the play along.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

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.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

Part of the training you get in theater is that you're never going to give up.

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

You have to learn how to dress yourself and how to walk into a room and talk to people. Once you're in rehearsal, you have to know how to rehearse and how to communicate with your creatives, even if you don't communicate the same way.

By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our soliloquies, and now what we call rap. It's the reason it's so easy to learn, because it's verse; it's rhyme! It just sticks in the soul very easily.