Quotes About Commitment

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you've got to be in the theater.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

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

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

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

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

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

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.