Theater Quotes
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I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
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Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
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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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You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.
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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.
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And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.
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Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.
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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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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
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I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.
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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'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
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I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
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I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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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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I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
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I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
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I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
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I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
