Quotes About Theater

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.

Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

I don't direct the plays of others.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

I've acted just to get to directing.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.