I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.
I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.
I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.
There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.
I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.
I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
We did a play in the third grade all about Winter not wanting to give over his throne to Spring. That was my first title role, and I took full advantage of it. I felt like there was no one else on that stage but Ms. Spring.
I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.
I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
I told Simon, 'I don't want to play Oscar. I want to play Felix because Oscar is too easy. He gets all the laughs. Felix is a hard part; that's the part I want to play.'
Comedy is commitment and playing a character and falling into the role, and I've been doing that since I was 19 years old.
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
