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In the theater, there's an emphasis on the singular voice. You know, it's your play. And in television, there's so much institutional involvement. So you end up having to negotiate with a lot of people, and that provides a kind of wear and tear on the spirit.

— Theresa Rebeck

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.

— Richard C. Armitage

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

— Tom Stoppard

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

— Jason Moore

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

— Chita Rivera

I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.

— Kelly Masterson

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

— Joss Whedon

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

— Ruth Negga

✗Opposing Perspectives

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

— Haylie Duff