Matt Sydal Quotes

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I do my best creating on stage.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.