Quotes About Theater

I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.

I always liked dressing up. I think, because I always liked performing, I always liked costumes and things like that.

I've always wanted to do a period drama - I love the costumes and the make-up.

I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

I would love to take a crack at 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.'

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I've always loved acting, and I do respect the craft.

There's nothing better than an educated actor - not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

Broadway is full of crazy people.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

Most times, I'm playing myself in films, like 'Rocky' or 'Creed.'

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's Lane, and I would go out each day and do the agents - walk into these buildings, along their corridors, bang on these doors and say, 'Anything today?'

People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.

As an actor, I love to play a good crying scene.