Quotes About Theater

The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me.

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

The original release of 'Star Wars' was literally the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. Four years old was probably too young - I recall believing, for some time, that Darth Vader was a robot.

It wasn't a hoax,' Burdmore said quickly. 'It was theater. Real theater. Like Brecht.' ¶ 'What does Brecht have to do with it? I think you should leave Brecht out of this--

It wasn't a hoax,' Burdmoore said quickly. 'It was theater. Real theater. Like Brecht.' ¶ 'What does Brecht have to do with it? I think you should leave Brecht out of this--

drama is a good book

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. William Shakespeare, 1564—1616

'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.

To do a year and a half on stage at the London Palladium was a buzz that's hard to beat.

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'

I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.'

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

What I found out about stage is that there is such a camaraderie between the actors.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

It's all performance and my acting background made me very comfortable in front of people, in front of cameras. It helped me think on my feet in front of a crowd.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.