Rutina Wesley Quotes

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

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

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me as a kid. It was just so magical that I was like, 'There's something going on back there that I don't know.' But, when I watched theater, it was something that was happening in front of me.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

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.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I come from a traditional theater background.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

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

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

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

I love working in the theater.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

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