Quotes About Theater

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

I get great joy from being a part of a play that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Any time you get to do a David Mamet play, it's a great opportunity. His writing is such that I think it's a big challenge, but when you get it right, it's a great opportunity to play every night, really.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show.

The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that's a great thing, too.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

I'm a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

Shonda and 'Grey's' have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that's something that I hadn't really envisioned for myself, other than directing for theater. Now I've got this resume of television credits that I can carry forward into the next opportunity.

None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.

There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.