Theatre Culture Quotes

Broadway was weird.

I'm obsessed with 'Hamilton.' I've seen it, like, three times, and if I could get a weekly pass, I would.

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.

So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow, you really got it right when you picked this show to be your first one.'

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

I love Broadway shows.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

Theatrical experience will always be the norm in India. In fact, as a producer and as an actor, I always hope that the magnum opus theatrical experience should always continue.

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

I want people to be obsessed with Broadway and theatre as much as I am.

To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.

People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.

We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

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.

Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.

I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded seats in the gallery for 15 pence, which was the price of a bus fare.

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Broadway show, and it is so hard to do if you don't live in New York - plus, it can be expensive to go to the theatre all the time, too.

All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't work in banks and they don't work for pharmaceutical companies. They teach drama, or they may be theatre directors. That's why I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.

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.