Quotes About Performance

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.