Quotes About Stage

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I started out as a dancer and an actor, and I need to remind myself that I can still do theatre.

I liked theatre because I could hide behind a role I was playing, but now, I just love being on stage. I don't pretend that I'm anyone else, I just show my full range when I am up there, and it's very liberating.

I did a lot of theatre.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.