Theatrical Community Quotes

'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

I love theatre. I think it's the home of most actors...most actors start with it. It's so enjoyable to do and to be able to see your audience. And the process of theatre is great.

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.