Ann Reinking Quotes

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love to explore.

I love theater.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.

I really do love the theater, and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out.

The theater is often seen as comical in the movies; to me, it's not comical - it's my life. I don't mean that it can't be comical, but it's not only comical.