Alfred Lunt Quotes

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

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 love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

I've always been entranced with theater.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

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

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

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.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.