Quotes About Stage

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from directors, actors, and so on.

It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I made the decision to go on stage after my father died. And he would have wanted me to. But I won't try and plug huge grief up with the false world of show-business ever again.

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

If you're not on set, if you're not on stage, go to class. Find teachers you trust and who push you and who you respect as people. That's what you're getting with a teacher: a point of view. You end up taking those points of view and that turns into your point of view as an actor.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I'm not a big classical actor.

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

Yes, I was born in London because my dad was closing out the West End version of Miss Saigon' there.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.