Theatre Acting Quotes
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company