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.
I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.
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!
I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.
I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.
