Idina Menzel Quotes

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films.

In the theater, you get very close with everyone, and you have to because you're with each other all the time. I respect it. It's a challenge, but it's very worth the hard work.

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.

Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

When you got a great cast around you, it makes the story easier to tell, to be honest.

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

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.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.