I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets..
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is th….
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director..
The theater was my mother and my father..
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater..
We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. ….
Theater helps people keep sane..
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?.
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things..
Theater dates very quickly..
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information..
The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night..