Ethan Slater Quotes

When the script of 'Nine' came along, I saw that there's a possibility of making something that is genuinely new and entertaining at the same time.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.

I've taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

What I am used to is 'Gali Guleiyan,' and people talking about my performances, what new I have tried in terms of my craft or the skill of storytelling.

It's the coolest job to be on Broadway.

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.