Estelle Parsons Quotes

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

I spent a lot of my time, growing up, at the Beck Center. I'd be in plays there, and I'd get there an hour or two early just so I could be there, where I felt safe and where I belonged. And that's such an important feeling to have as a young kid. The theater community, and especially the Beck Center, really embraced me and got me started.

I've actually seen a good amount of the shows at Lincoln Center Theater. I went to school right across the street at Juilliard, so some of the first stuff I got to see here in New York was at the Lincoln Center Theater. I've always been inspired by the work that they do.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

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

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.