Quotes About Theater

When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to guy.

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play!

I love acting, so doing roles as a man or a woman would be something I'd love to do in the future.

Cleopatra is one of the roles that I would love to do!

I can play character roles for sure.

I'm used to big roles and lots of words.

There's a romance and power to live theater.

I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

It was watching Franco's 'Romeo and Juliet' at the age of 15 that first made me want to act.

My roots are in theater.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

I think changing routine is something that actors like.

Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked.

Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.

I fell in love with 19th-century Russian plays.

There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.

One of the things that I love so much about the character of Sally Bowles is that she is such a huge character - she is so roomy.

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.

The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.