Quotes About Theater

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.

I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

I am happy to play the bad man.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

I used to see movies where they'd put on a play in a barn, but I've never played one.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

I don't know anything about being a royal child. But I have played Shakespearian kings.

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.