Quotes About Theater

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.

When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures.

People will always want to get together in groups at plays and have the contagious thing of someone laughing with them.

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he's getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'

I would be glad to share the screen with anyone as long as I love my character and the story.

If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

Some days it seems I've done as much as I can here and I think I'll go and try my luck in America. But then a call comes from the Globe theatre. They want me for King Lear, playing Edmund.

Of course, the Globe will be an international educational center as well as a theater.

Most Britons, and most Americans as well, either thought the Globe was in Stratford-Upon-Avon or didn't know where it was at all.

The physical nature of the Globe is going to break down a lot of barriers.

The main thing about the Globe is there's 700 people all standing right in front of you.

I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I think good acting is always character acting.

Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.

Eric Stoltz was a very good actor.

I'm a good actor.

I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.

If you are a good actor then you are good at comedy.