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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.
The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.
I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.
The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.
Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.
You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.
Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.
I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.
When I'm working in theatre I never go to the bar with the other actors; I go home and think about what I did wrong.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.