Theatrical Performances Quotes

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is.

My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

Don't worry about me. I plan to continue to be in show business. I have already been booked to be in a production of 'The Sunshine Boys' with Jay Leno.

I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job.

I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

I love musicals and I love Broadway.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.