Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'
I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.
Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
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.
'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun.
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
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.
You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
