Quotes About Drama

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

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

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

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.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

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.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

I have done a lot of theater.

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

I love theater.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

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

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.