Stephen Lang Quotes

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.

I would love to play Richard III.

Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I would love to play a Bond Girl one day, but I'd also love to work on a project as challenging and heartfelt as 'Room.'

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.