Quotes About Theater

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

Of course, there is no substitute for live performances.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

I like to use the stage and there's nothing subtle about me.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

I think there's a weird stigma in the TV-film world that theater people can't be funny and understand subtlety, and I think that could not be more wrong.

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

The first time I put on my play I Know I've Been Changed, I took for granted that it would be a huge success. I envisioned folks lining up outside the theater and filling all the seats. I could hear their loud laughter and endless applause resounding in my ears. Feeling optimistic, in the summer of 1993 I spent every cent from my income tax return, money that should have gone to a car

The theater had seating for two hundred people. You know how many seats were filled on opening night? Thirty. That's right. Thirty. When I looked out and saw all that emptiness, my heart sank to the bottom. I was so naïve, assuming people would just show up. On top of that, I'd booked the theater for Fourth of July weekend. I had a lot

A couple of weeks later, the play was produced at the Fox Theatre, with more than 4,500 seats, and it sold out—two shows.

You are acting, not being." Strasberg explained, "I stress the difference between the actor who thinks acting is an imitation of life, and the actor who feels acting is living

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

Kit spends a week of her summer vacation volunteering at the local theater—she wants to write a newspaper article about a play that's opening soon. It even stars famous actors from New York City! But behind

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

The ancient Greeks lived more than 2,500 years ago and were responsible for many of the things you take for granted today, such as democracy, freedom of speech, theater, money, the Olympic Games, and crazy politicians.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.