24 Quotes by Joyce DeWitt

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn’t want to be a big star, just a long star. That’s what I want too.

When you decide you’re going to join a project, it’s all about the gift you’re giving the audience.

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.