Quotes About Theater

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

Cameron Mackintosh

I spent a whole year in 'Spamalot' and didn't have one drop of alcohol.

I didn't want to work on dry, old plays written by the dry, old dead.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school.

I'm dying to do a drama.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Not only did I cross-dress at 10, playing Rosalind in 'As You Like It,' I also found myself in a cross-dressed part at 60, when I played Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

I've been on stage since I was eight.

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.