John Hench Quotes

Theater is hard.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

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

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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 best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!

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

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

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

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

You can only do so much theatre.

I think there is no world without theatre.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I love theater.

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

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

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