Martha Graham Quotes

Everything is theater.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

I love theatre. I think it's the home of most actors...most actors start with it. It's so enjoyable to do and to be able to see your audience. And the process of theatre is great.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

The only thing I won't do is theater.

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.

When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.

I love life. I love the live theater.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.