John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

It's our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning the show into an experience and not just somebody standing around with a microphone rapping.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.