Quotes About Theater

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

Although I do love popcorn movies - I'll totally be there to see 'Star Wars' - it's rare to see something in a movie theater that goes beyond our expectations.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.

I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It's because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.

I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.