Maria Bamford Quotes

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Penn and Teller love the very intellectual side of magic. Me, I'm more fun than them. They never look like they're having fun. They look angry.

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

The best choices will always be the most loving.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.