Douglas Hodge Quotes

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.

In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.

Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.

Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

When you're on Broadway, what's kind of the whole point is that you find something new in the show each night.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience.

What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.

While acting is a passion, hosting is fun.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

No space should be safe from theatre.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.