Quotes About Theater

I invented this wonderful death scene for Javert of going down on my knees and then leaning back like a limbo dancer to make it look as if I was falling off a bridge. I did it eight times a week for nearly a year and I've had trouble with my knees ever since - they don't even allow me to jog these days.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

I was never late to a show more often than 'La Cage.' Because I lived close, and I didn't really do anything in that show.

If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.

The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

Se il teatro dell'amore era immutato, perché sarebbe mutato l'amore?

In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

Marx loved college theater. It wasn't so much being on stage that he loved, but the productions themselves. He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art. He mourned every time a production was over, and he rejoiced when he was cast in a new one.

If you're honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn't get any roommates is because you hoped something like this would happen. You set the stage, and you knew the player wouldn't be able to resist the call of the theater.

Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.