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I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.
First career I had right out of engineering school was at Lucas film, not working in the movies but working in home theater.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'
I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.
I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.
The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.
I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.
When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.
I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.
'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.
I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.
I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people.
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.