David Cook Quotes

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.