The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.
The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the PriestPastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.
The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.
I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.
I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.
And I found the theater, and I found my home.
We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.