Quotes About Craft

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

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

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

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 remember, at one point, I was actually studying it kind of intensively around 2001, when Hrithik Roshan was big. I wanted to learn more about it, as I've always been intrigued by the craft of Bollywood, in that how well they were shot in glorious widescreen. I would actually go to see Bollywood films in the theaters in New York and New Jersey.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, it's typing.