Theater Quotes
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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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The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
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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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Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
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In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
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I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.
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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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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
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The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
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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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I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers 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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If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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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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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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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
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Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!
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We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
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I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.
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A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.
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I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
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I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.
