Hugh Hardy Quotes

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

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

You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

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.

It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.

Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

There's something wholesome about the theatre.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

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 like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefully I am making them forget about all their problems in the world. For however many hours they are at our show, hopefully they are going to have a great time, and it makes life a little more bearable for everybody involved.

I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.

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.

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together.

When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.

Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.