Quotes About Theater

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

Every time that you do a play or a show of any kind, really you have this family that you really build something with for a while, and then we all dissipate, but you always have that connection, that eternal kind of intimacy, you'll always have.

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

I think any director is intimidating.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Sometimes it should be the job of Broadway to introduce stars as well as cast them.

If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

An actor is an actor irrespective of age.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

I am itching to play every character.

Jack Bender is a real actor's director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process.

I'd say that acting is a side project for Jack.

Believe it or not, Jack Lemmon was my inspiration. I saw him in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Stratford theater. I was just 21 or 22 at the time and I thought some day I would like to be an actor.