I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
Interpretation
The joy of performing in live theater comes from the camaraderie and energy shared among the cast and crew.
In this quote, Jason Alexander highlights the unique and exhilarating experience of live theater, emphasizing that the true reward lies not only in performing for an audience but also in the strong bond formed with fellow performers. The synergy created through collective effort and shared passion for the craft is what makes the experience captivating and fulfilling.
In practice
In a speech at the community arts festival, you could quote this to highlight the importance of collaboration in local theater productions.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.
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