Quotes About Theater

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.

I do a play a year, or every 18 months, and you get your comedies and your dramas, but you hardly get anything that touches some kind of core in you.

I am comfortably ensconced in my position as an actor.

I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.

Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.

I always wanted to play Marius in 'Les Miserables,' I actually got offered the role but I had to commit to do it for six months, and as that meant I wouldn't have been able to tour with McFly I turned it down.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music and find that way of telling a story to be really compelling as well.

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.

'Turn Me Loose' was Off-Broadway, and now we are making a concerted effort to figure out how to get it to on Broadway.

This is the problem I have: I write a play and I give it to a director and they say, 'I'll do it one condition: if you play the role.'

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

Acting is a form of confession.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.