“I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.” PeopleMeanIdeasFourFansMonthsAmountTheaterAccessNo IdeaOverwhelmingMailAmazedBroadwayFind MeFan Mail Author:Sonya Walger
“The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.” LongRunningAudienceStageFrontsMonthsPeriodsTheaterGreat ThingsRehearsal Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.” TryingLinesActingStepsAudienceEffectsStageMonthsPerformancesTheaterImprovementRepetitionReciting Author:Alfred Molina
“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.” ThinkingFirstsTwoPlayShowsMonthsInvolvedSixModelsTheaterMalesFortyPlasticSix MonthsCasting Author:Austin Peck
“The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.” HandsThreeAudienceWonderfulFrontsMonthsSixCommitmentTheaterWonderful ThingsSix MonthsThree Months Author:Treat Williams
“I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.” SawsMonthsCoupleTheaterBombsJapanAirplanePearlsHarborsPreview Author:Bobby Fischer
“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.” WorldNeedsYearsPlayShowsAbleFilmGuyHalfMorningAudienceNiceWeekBrotherMonthsDisciplineInvolvedSceneToolsTheaterEightBagsRehearsalYour Brother Author:William Sadler
“By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.” WellsTwoRunningThreeMonthsAreasTheaterDollarsIncludingFinishedDozenTheatricalTwo MonthsBay Area Author:Mira Grant
“I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.” HomeSchoolMomMonthsSixTheaterMy MomStayingSix MonthsCouchesToronto Author:Scott Speedman
“I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater - I had done three Broadway shows in a row and was a bit burnt out - I moved out to L.A. and I was not working very much. I came in cold and I'd work for a week, but then I'd have a month or two off. I thought, "I'm going to go crazy unless I actually do write." Like a lot of things in life, it was a situation that came about by circumstances.” WantWritingTwoDoneShowsThreeLeftBitsSituationWeekCrazyNew YorkMonthsColdCircumstancesTheaterMovedThings In LifeBroadwayBroadway ShowsBurnt Out Author:Jim Piddock
“My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.” GivingWantedSchoolJobsYoungActorsFoundFatherWeekMonthsSixHigh SchoolShotsTheaterAgentsAgencyLos AngelesSix Months Author:Jensen Ackles
“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?” PeopleThinkingWantRealStoriesRoomsMonthsDirectorsAspectTheaterScriptsIsolationReal BeautyReally DeepDelving Author:Karen Allen
“In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.” TwoWholeBodyEnergyHoursHalfMonthsSixTheaterReleaseSix MonthsStaminaHalf Hours Author:Alan Rickman
“I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.” PeopleIfsWorldMadeI CanMightHappensAbleSchoolActorsHouseProgressMonthsProudMembersTheaterStudiosCraftsThese DaysBest ThingsInterfereGreat PeopleStrideArthurBrandoMildred Author:James Dean