Robin Williams Quotes

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

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

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

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

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

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.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

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.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

I'm addicted to acting.

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

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.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.