Amy Landecker Quotes

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

We all know that on Broadway you need to have stars to do a play.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Theater dates very quickly.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

The stage is near and dear to me.