Philip Baker Hall Quotes

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I love working in New York theater.

The stage is my first love.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

I used to like doing school plays.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.