Quotes About Theater

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

Alongside the iconic 'South Pacific,' I absolutely loved working on 'Bright Star' with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.