Quotes About Theater

There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.