Quotes About Theater

I love the idea of live theater the best because you are sitting there with the community in the dark, looking at the light, and that's really - you can't get any higher than that.

I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

Actors die so loud.

I look back on those early days in the theater like the beginning of a love affair, when you're totally in love with the work, and that's all there is.

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

I've done plays where you get into the run and can go to auditions during the day, or can have lunch with someone, and then you go to half-hour and show up.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

I did 'Macbeth' in elementary school, but I was never in theater or anything like that.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me as a kid. It was just so magical that I was like, 'There's something going on back there that I don't know.' But, when I watched theater, it was something that was happening in front of me.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.

My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living.

I would like to start acting, making movies.

When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.

I do theater as much as possible, but it's very difficult to manage for me.

Being on stage is like running a marathon every night.