Richard Greenberg Quotes

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

In live stage, the actor lives.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.