Quotes About Theater

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Acting, Dickens and his contemporaries believed, was the art of gesture, no more and no less.

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.

I seized him by his little pig-tail,And on his knees fell he,As he squirmed and struggled,And gurgled and guggled,I drew my snickersnee!

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.