Eydie Gorme Quotes

I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and you rehearse like crazy, but after opening night, the director's not there anymore, you know. He gives you notes during previews after each performance, but opening night, you're on your own.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.

To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.

I've dreamt lucidly about how my Broadway debut would go and what that would feel like, but I know that I can't be prepared for that.

I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'

My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.

I did it once in high school - I was Sandy in Grease - and I decided then that I would never do it again. I've felt that way for years, and that's no bullshit.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role.

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by Chris Durang. Swoosie Kurtz was one of the stars. It was a wonderful show. It closed in 40 performances. I think it was kind of ahead of its time.

There's nothing like an opening night or like the curtain going up and having a full house, but also having weeks and weeks to work with your director and cast members and try to crack the play. It's great.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.