Theater Quotes

"I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part." "Comedy is acting out optimism." "In my mind, the plays I was reading in college, they all had gay characters or trans characters in them" "Improv is mostly what it involves, creating on the spot" "To be an actor, you have to be a child" "The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing." "Good acting should teach people to understand each other better" "You can't do it better without the equipment the actors need." "I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate yourself and have others believe it." "As an actor you always want to find a piece of yourself in every character" "To play a role, you have to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand their world." "Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be." "I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way."