Quotes About Theater

Our job is to make films that are inherently global and can really stand up to the audience litmus test of, 'Is it worth getting in my car, spending the money, and going to the theater?'

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards.

I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be there. There's an old theater saying: 'If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage'... You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

I've been part of shows that are long runners, and they're much more rigid. You get told, 'This is where the character stands, and this is how you say that line because we know it gets a laugh.'

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

For love I make characters in plays.

Now they were audience, waiting for the actors on the other side of the glass to begin their drama.