Quotes About Theater

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

It's very easy to fall in love with every character you play.

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.

The peripety was according to the best rules of tragic art.

She's one of our fans. She comes to the theater and allows us to curse and berate her, and that's her contribution to our struggle." Roscoe

Good'? my aunt said. Children are good. Dogs are good. This is theater, Jane.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

When I was starting, I was working with actors who came up through the rep system, and they understood the discipline required: you were never late for rehearsal, you were never not ready to go on, you were always prepared; it was about showing respect to the rest of the company.

With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.

In low comedy, a character gets hit in the head, and you don't really believe it. In farce, he's hit in the head, but he must be hit in the head. The character requires it.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

Galactica' resembles 'Bonanza' because it's all theater.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

I was shy and didn't believe in myself, and I only bloomed when I was in theater during rehearsal. And that's how my family found out that that's where I needed to be, because that's where I felt the most comfortable.

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

Whenever there was a show like 'Calamity Jane,' me and my siblings would be plonked on stage in a costume because it was easier to have us in it rather than sort out babysitters.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.