Quotes About Theater

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

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

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

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 mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

I have done a lot of theater.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

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.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.