Quotes About Theater

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.

Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're a writer or an actor or a director - in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.

All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that.

I didn't know anything about 'Star Trek.' I was doing theater a lot in those days, getting my life together. I didn't watch television. So, to come in on it was a really amazing experience.

I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Isn't it rich?Are we a pair?Me here at last on the ground,You in mid-air.Send in the clowns.

Sing out, Louise!

A matinee, a Pinter play, Perhaps a piece of Mahler's.