Theater Quotes
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It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
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I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.
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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.
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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
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I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.
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If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
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Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.
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My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education programs.
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“Bread and Puppet Theater got their start protesting the Vietnam War and have ever since been performing at social gatherings where everyone is invited. Quest wanted to be the people's theater of Chicago and Bread and Puppet represents the type of open and accessible art we're going for.
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
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My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.
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Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and be quoting those lines?’ It’s more of a challenge.
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I saw 'Animal House' in the theater the night before I left for college. And for better or worse, it made an impression. Within a week, I was in a fraternity myself.
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I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
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I had pinned all my hopes on the theater.
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I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.
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Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.
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I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.
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L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
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To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.
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Theater has always been terrifying to me.
