So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.
Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.
I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.
The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.
