Theater Quotes
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
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I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.
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I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.
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I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.
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Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.
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Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.
