Quotes About Theater

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.