Sean Gunn Quotes

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.

The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The people who want to be discovered do theater on the side in L.A. But there are people who are very dedicated to theater who love theater in L.A.

I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.

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.

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

My understanding is that it's quite difficult for actors in the theater to know anybody but actors in the theater. It's the whole concept of the amniotic fluid surrounding one industry, holding people in place. I've never had a season ticket. I'm always a tourist.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.

I think the artist community is very tight-knit.

I loved working in Pittsburgh - the theater there is amazing, so many different types of theater.

I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community.

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

The people of Baltimore are great. I love Baltimore. What I looked forward to, every year, was getting a new apartment in a different part of town and hanging out. People started to see you in the character that you were, so everyone thought I was real police.