I went into musical theatre, which I’m not really cut out for – I’m not as skilled at it as other people.

We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

You’ll never really be great unless you aim high.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c’est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit,...

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as...

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does...

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and...

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was ‘On the Town’ at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn’t Barrymore’s best or Olivier’s best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier...

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.His name, as I ought to have told you before,Is really Asparagus. That’s such a fussTo pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.His coat’s very shabby, he’s...

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.

Et voilà. Maintenant le ressort est bandé. Cela n’a plus qu’à se dérouler tout seul. C’est cela qui est commode dans la tragédie. On donne le petit coup de pouce pour que cela démarre, rien,...

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly...

All the world’s a stage.

Musical theatre is something I’m familiar with, I’ve been doing that.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

I’ve never been in love, never in my life.Oh, I’ve dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night,but my soul is like a fine piano that’s locked,and the key is lost.

I’m a theatre person, that’s who I am. I’m happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I’m basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

I have a dialect myself; it’s more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It’s half-British, half-Indian.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

There’s such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can’t learn in L.A.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

My father’s parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they...

Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why...

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of...