Theater is a way of seeing, a way of understanding human behavior, a way of connecting to other people.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Theater is like a faithful dog: it remains waiting for us, silent and hopeful.
The theater is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
The theater is a great art, but there are many actors. One must have the courage to become an actor and a great artist.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
The stage is not merely a place for performance, it is a platform for truth, for empathy, and for understanding.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.
Theater is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

The theater is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.