Quotes About Performance

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

I have done a lot of theater.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

I love theater.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.