Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

We like street theater.

At the end it was everybody’s fault, not one in particular, because the place wasn’t meant to be a theater,

The reason I was in most of the movies I’ve done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.

I’m doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It’s my first LA theater project.

Theater feeds my heart and soul.

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c’est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit,...

Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if the children danced and the congregation remained transfixed, the show would go on.

There’re previews for it in the movie theater.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and...

One of my comics is read by more people – around 70,000 – than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I’m in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

Being back in theater is amazing. I get really excited about it because I’ve missed that. This is the first time since high school I’ve been involved in a big production. I’ve been relearning everything...

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Well, I’m… first and foremost I’m a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

it would turn into a major motion picture, coming to a theater near you.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Personally, I love theater; that’s where I started.

In presenting this, a theater is meant to open a discussion, not to close it,

You know how thick I am. I don’t even eat yoghurt because it’s got culture in it.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the...

The theater is magical and addictive.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

I would suggest that the theater is the art form that most fully offers us an opportunity to reflect on the Incarnation because it is the presentation of one body to another.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

The text is your greatest enemy.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

Oh, come on! Nobody’s favorite color is BROWN!

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

You can’t wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything’s finally in the right place.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

This theater is actually always busy. There’s so much going on here.

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

The theater is who I am – it’s where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.