Top 23 Quotes by Estelle Parsons

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.