Robertson Davies Quotes

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

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.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

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

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I'll always go back to the stage.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

I've always been entranced with theater.

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.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.