Richard Masur Quotes

I'd like to do a play in New York.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in it for me. It was going to open in Chicago, and then go to New York. But then, he died. It was Arthur Miller. That was the reason I turned Lost down.

I enjoy acting, and I would love to do a play in the future.

A lot of the magic is off-Broadway.

Arthur Winslow is one of the great parts.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.

I can't tell you the excitement to be in a new TV series or a play you've got to read for. That's the best.

I love the theater, and I just don't love television like that.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I'm dying to do a drama.

I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

As far as theater goes, Sarah DeLappe's 'The Wolves' is one of my favorite things I've ever seen.

In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.