Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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

The theater is often seen as comical in the movies; to me, it's not comical - it's my life. I don't mean that it can't be comical, but it's not only comical.

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.

'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

Actors are a peculiar breed.

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

A good comedian has to be a fine actor all around.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

Theater is an amazing outlet.

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

Sometimes the world didn't feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I'm addicted to acting.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.