Theatrical Roots Quotes

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.

I'm not into dragon chasing - trying to become Bradley Cooper. I want to be a New York actor. I want to plant a flag in this community.

My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

I come from straight theater.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.