Quotes About Theater

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.

I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

I felt something like a sense of achievement while acting.

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I have to say, Franz in 'Rock of Ages,' I had three final callbacks for that role before I booked it - it was something that I'd dreamed of. I wanted to play that role. I love that show.

I was in the final running for the Zac Efron role in 'High School Musical.'

I was in my final year in college when I acted in 'Nanda Gokula.'

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.

It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time.