Quotes About Theater

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!

In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.

I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of the ingenue parts leave a lot to be desired, in my opinion.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so she put me in extracurricular classes, one of them being theater.

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.

if I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Esos innovadores del teatro, Jerzy Grotowski, el director polaco de teatro experimental y autor de Hacia un teatro pobre, Peter Brook, el director inglés, y el Living Theater, el grupo de teatro experimental fundado por Julian Beck

I caught a glimpse of her onstage as I made my way up to one of the dressing rooms – one of those thin, pale-faced, red-haired Berlin girls who reminded me of a safety match.

escaped from the theater by running into the adjacent fire station, sliding down the firemen's pole, and escaping in a police car while one of the engines rushed out to create a diversion.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

The Theater resides at the intersection of education and the arts. The arts are seen as a set of media with a potential for promoting profoundly educational experiences. They can allow for everyday concerns, so close and yet so distance, to be freshly apprehended… problems that must be addressed

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

To go back to visit the early days with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, when she was the dance captain of 'How to Succeed,' and finding them again 25 years later and working with them on 'Charity.' That was really great fun.