In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.
I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.
There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.
I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.
'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day. I saw a lot of theater while I was there.
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!
