Phillipa Soo Quotes

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and a contribution to the world.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

Acting is what happens on the way.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

I do my best creating on stage.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.