Quotes About Change

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

Theater dates very quickly.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

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

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. We became the illegal newspaper.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.