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I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing 'em.
I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.
Growing up in the Raleigh theater scene was a big factor in developing the ability, which I have now, to be freely me.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.
Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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.
My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'
If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.
I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.
I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.
The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.
I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.