A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.
I don't think about going back to the theater.
The theater is magical and addictive.