Theatre Actor Quotes

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.

I was introduced to the world of films by Manoj Bajpayee and trained under theatre actor Makrand Deshpande.

I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor.