Allan Sherman Quotes

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

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

'Intermission' was my favourite film.

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

The theater is often seen as comical in the movies; to me, it's not comical - it's my life. I don't mean that it can't be comical, but it's not only comical.

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.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.

My husband and I are both actors; we're obviously dramatic.

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.

With improv or a full length play - you know how you go to a theater, and after 10 minutes you say, 'Oh, I don't like this thing,' but you don't want to get up and leave? At a sketch show, it's always something new every few minutes.

I'm doing a bit of theatre: I'm doing a Mike Bartlett play called 'Contractions.' I'm very, very happy and lucky to be going back to the stage.

What's fun about 'New Girl' is that when we sit down for a table read, we are always in the mind-set of, 'Well, wonder what this is gonna be like!'

We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'

On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.

Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging.

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.

I've done so much drama on television that it's very hard to sit down and watch other actors work. I find my interest is more in the real world.

What I love about working on 'Younger' is that it combines some of my favorite elements of both theatre and film.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.