Theater Quotes
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There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
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On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
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I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
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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 pinned all my hopes on the theater.
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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
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I hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to all of them. The fact that this was a small film without much money and without much time made it rich in energy and momentum and drive when we were actually making it 'cause that's all you've got. You've just got the story and the people.
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
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The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
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I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.
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Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.
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I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
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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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It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater.
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When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
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I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old.
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One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.
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You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.
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The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
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We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
