Quotes About Theater

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

I love theater.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

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

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

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

New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

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

I'm afraid to do theater now.

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.