Quotes About Theater

I wasn't ambitious though I loved acting.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

When I was ten, I did my first show. It was 'Annie.'

When I go into a theater, I'm very excited to turn off my phone. But then, of course, I get anxiety.

There is a certain kind of anxiety whenever I go perform live in a play.

I'm not much of a musical-goer; they don't really appeal to me.

I don't like to go any longer than two years without appearing on stage.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

As an actor, I want to do roles that get appreciation from audience.

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

For me, playing characters is always about an energy and feeling it in your body. That's when I know that the character arrived.

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

How much better to be dead at thirty!' — Well, you thought I was melancholy, and you played all sorts of pranks to amuse me, and between two kisses I said, 'Every day some pretty woman leaves the play before it is over!' — And I do not want to see the last piece; that is all.

Let a play have five acts, neither more nor less.

When we went to automatic espresso machines, we solved a major problem in terms of speed of service and efficiency. At the same time, we overlooked the fact that we would remove much of the romance and theater that was in play. .

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.