Israel Horovitz Quotes

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

At eight o'clock the curtain goes up and that's it, you're out there with yourself, the audience, the other players. There's no "take two" business. You're on. The great thing is the rehearsals, too. When you're bouncing around on film sets and TV sets you don't really get the opportunity to - generally speaking - rehearse much. With theater you're kind of four-to-five weeks locked down in the room with the guys figuring stuff out. It's back to play school.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

I've always been entranced with theater.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.

There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

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.

Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They were just exciting people. And I knew that they were different when I would go see a friend or stay at someone else's house. It just wasn't as cool. So I always loved the theater, and that's where I started: at a theater up in Canada.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.