Kenny Leon Quotes

There's something wholesome about the theatre.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

There's a lot of people in the community who are seeing a play for a first time, and that, to me, is really exciting.

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears - you want that full range of emotion.

I want to entertain and inspire.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.