I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
I think about Chicago as being a very actor-centered theater town, and people aren't in it to get to the next level, like movies and television. We're there for the love of the theater. So I think it fit right into my particular skill set, which is I love performing live.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
'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.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.
I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.
Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.
When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city.
I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.
From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
It's hard being a Broadway actor going into film where you have to tone everything down. In theater, everything you're taught is to be big and broad and make everyone feel like they are right next to you, even in the last row of seats.
I probably didn't talk in public until eighth grade, and then in high school, I started doing oral interpretation - kind of like monologues. Through theater and plays, I started coming out of my shell.
I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.
My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
