Quotes About Theater

The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never really had a choice - when I was two years old, I was the baby in a play that they did, and it kind of just happened naturally.

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.

I came from theater, which is its own beast.

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

The service--a moved Roosevelt called it the keynote of his meeting with Churchill--was working a kind of magic, which is one of the points of liturgy and theater: to use the dramatic to convince people of a reality they cannot see.

There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!

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America is layered with the given graffiti, names of its generous dead. There isn't a museum or hospital, a theater or municipal amenity, however humble, that can't be blessed with the remembrance of the comfortably-off and defunct. The money left to Ivy League universities in America isn't about the needs of learning.