Quotes about Theater

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

Of course I am an actor but I consider myself as an entertainer as well.