A Quote by Barrett Foa

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

Barrett Foa

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Audience Being Being There Grown Having Immediacy Love Reacting Spoiled Theater Up

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Barrett Foa
American - Actor

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

Elizabeth Strout

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

Miguel Ferrer

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

Nicole Ari Parker

I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

John Lithgow

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre.

Emma Watson

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

Rachel McAdams

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.

Rachel Brosnahan

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

Sean Penn

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Beah Richards

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

Alex Lawther

One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.

Billy Crudup

I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that I just clung to.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

C. S. Lewis

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.