Quotes About Theater

My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

I just try to remember my lines most of the time.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.

El teatro no puede desaparecer porque es el único arte donde la humanidad se enfrenta a sí misma

Life is a stage where the worst actor plays the king while the best actor the beggar.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. ~ Augusto Boal

I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.

She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances—gracious and smiling, a smile that made her face brighter and colder, like the sun on a winter day.

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.