Theater Quotes
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
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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 was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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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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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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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 musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.
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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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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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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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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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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.
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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 happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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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.
