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.
If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
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.
There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.
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.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
