Martha Graham Quotes

By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

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

Acting is very immediate.

I'm a drama guy.

I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out.

You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There's no middle.

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

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.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

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

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

I love working in the theater.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I think there is no world without theatre.

I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.