Quotes About Theater

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

As the stage lamps were turned up, these shapes were revealed to be pieces of scenery, mere suggestions of forms. To me, it became rocky land, devoid of moisture.

These people look like actors and their domains are stage sets.

It was as if her mind were a theater where bad actors could be run off the stage by a pack of adorable, yelping dogs.

WITCH. The useful acronym stood for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, but it could also mean Women Inspired to Tell their Collective History, Women Interested in Toppling Consumer Holidays, and a host of imaginative variations. Proclaiming that witches were the original female rebels, hounded, persecuted, and burned at the stake because they had knowledge that men wanted suppressed, WITCH devoted itself to hit-and-run guerrilla theater, called "zaps.

In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

On a soap opera, you'll do an episode and a half a day, and in prime time television, you're hustling to get an episode done in eight days. That's a little bit frustrating sometimes. But there's also something exhilarating about it. It's kind of like live theater in a way, where you get one crack at it.

Soap operas are like acting boot camps.

It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.