Brian Dennehy Quotes

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and heart to come out.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

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

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

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.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

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

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

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

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.