Theresa Rebeck Quotes

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

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

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.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart.

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

I trained in the theatre.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

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.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.

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