Theater Quotes
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I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.
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I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
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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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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
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I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
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My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
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Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
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At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.
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When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
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I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
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I think of theater as a place of instructive entertainment where you can sit and learn to laugh or cry. I'm not going to ever contribute to delinquency in my roles, either adult or juvenile delinquency; I think too much of the public.
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To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
