Quotes About Theater

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

I actually enjoy playing monsters and that kind of thing.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.