Theater Quotes

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.