David Koechner Quotes

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

Being on film is forever. Television, as well, just lives on and on and on, which is really exciting. But then with theater, it's like an experience. You have to be there that one special night that was like that to see that one performance that was really remarkable. It's more intimate as well. So I like them both.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I do my best creating on stage.

I'm a total performer.

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

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!

I love to perform live.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.

I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

The whole idea of performing before an audience is fun and organic.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.