Theater Enthusiasm Quotes

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

I was a stage-struck kid.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

'Hamilton' has restored my faith in theater.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

I think about Chicago as being a very actor-centered theater town, and people aren't in it to get to the next level, like movies and television. We're there for the love of the theater. So I think it fit right into my particular skill set, which is I love performing live.

You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

I've seen 'Hamilton.' I'm obsessed. The music is crazy.

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'