My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.
I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
I love little theatres because it's very intimate, and you can have a very easy rapport with the audience. Everyone's in the same room.
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.
I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
