Theater Role Quotes

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

I was offered a part in the stage version of 'Calendar Girls,' but the part is so predictable. It just makes me angry when I read the script.

The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.

My first-ever role was the king in 'The Princess and the Pea.'

Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories.

Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.

I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in West Side Story when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid and I just like forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved West Side Story so much and I somehow managed to get the role. I had an afro and glasses, and the guy who cast me goes, "All right, the first thing to go is the afro and the next thing, I'm going to buy you contacts and we're going to get you..." So he kind of molded me into what it had to - that's still probably the hardest role I've every played in anything, the most taxing role.

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

I would love to do a non-musical Broadway or Off-Broadway play.

Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

I'm not a big prop actor.

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.