Quotes About Theater

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I'm not a big classical actor.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'

Broadway is a closed ecosystem.

Yes, I was born in London because my dad was closing out the West End version of Miss Saigon' there.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

I did clown training for months.