Quotes About Stage

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

The first perk of theater is the girls.

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

All theater is dance.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

I have a passion to do theater.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.