Quotes About Theater

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

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

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.

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.

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

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.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

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

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.