Matt Ross Quotes

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

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

Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.

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

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

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 believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

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.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

I do my best creating on stage.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I played comedies and dramas.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.