Quotes About Passion

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

I am a huge theatre geek.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

I have such a passion for theatre.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.