Quotes About Theater

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

James Spader is a good actor.

I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the cast to the lighting people and to respect everyone in the theater and all the way down to the janitor. It's a part of my childhood. It's what I know really.

It's lovely to be acting with Lauren Bacall. We're been friends for a long time - since about 1956, since she met Jason Robards when he and I did 'The Disenchanted'.

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

Jessica Lange is my all-time favorite actress.

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

I joined the drama club when I was in 11th grade.

I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.

Siamo gli attori ingenui su una scena di un palcoscenico misterioso e immenso.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.

In Shubert Alley that night, I had unwittingly reached the threshold of an entire landscape of alleys that would lead to a world of theaters, each a house packed with strangers both generous and mean, shabby and grand. It was to be a life full of the transitory moments, double-edged with ecstasy and loss, that I had already come to think of as the theater.