Theater Quotes

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I'd love to do some theater.

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

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

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

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.

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

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.