Acting Troupe Quotes

It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going into rehearsals. The thing, as I look back on it now, that I was most attracted to, was that I felt like I'd found my family. It was just a bunch of loonies.

The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly.

Actors bond really quickly.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

I love the camaraderie that develops on film sets and ensemble casts. It's really special.

Theatre is such a joy because it's a group effort. Everyone has to move in tandem. It was lovely to be able to carry that over into 'Barry.'

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

I sort of understand why there is a brotherhood of Hamlets. It's a nice part of acting; you do get to be part of gangs.

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

'Mandem On The Wall' is an online comedy series that I produce, write and act in along with three other people.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that hang out together.

I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.