Israel Horovitz Quotes

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

I'm a drama guy.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.

I never dreamed that I would be autographing Playbills.

I started playing small roles, but it's the stage that I enjoy the most, as that's where I can entertain people.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.