People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.
I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.
My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked.
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
