I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Theater dates very quickly.
That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
I'd love to do some theater.
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.
I love working in the theater.
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.
Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.
I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.
I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.
