Quotes About Theater

The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago.

I love acting, I really do, I've always loved doing it, and it's a joy to be asked to do this. I mean, to do Beatrice, for God's sake, it is the best comedy Shakespeare role for a woman, and to be asked to do it.

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'

Where does an actress go after playing Cleopatra's magnificent death? Why didn't Shakespeare write more - and more powerful - roles for mature women?

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.

Muhlenberg is the school that made me and shaped me into the actor I am today.