Quotes About Theater

My career is weird because it's not like I'm a Liev Schreiber or a Philip Seymour Hoffman, incredibly well-respected theater actors who dabble in TV or film.

I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

The physicality of a production needs evolution and breath.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

I don't want to know what happens because I enjoy picking up a script and going, 'I do what?!'

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

I'd love to do a perlod piece. Maybe 'Caesar and Cleopatra.' I could do both roles- at one-and-a-half salaries.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.