Quotes About Passion

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

I love theater.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.