I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.
I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there, so I think we'll always have theater. I think theater will always be a powerful force because we need that human touch, particularly as we spend more and more time with machines, cell phones, computers we start to lose our humanity.
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.
. . . there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.
I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.
The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.
I used to do theater in L. A. , but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.