I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.
Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
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 don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.
I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
Good drama must be drastic.
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all
I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L. A.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.
I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if youre a theater actor its very difficult to make a living. But its also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.
. . . It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.