Theater Quotes

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

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.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

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

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.