Quotes About Theater

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Films are my passion. I am here to act and entertain masses.

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.

I'll always be an Essex girl at heart but I've matured and I've evolved and with my work I'm in the West End all the time.

When I get older, if they ever do a project about Audra McDonald's life, I would love to play her, or even play her daughter in something. I love her.

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

Acting is acting, be it any medium.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.

I'd love to return to theater.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.

I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.

Richard II is my dream part.

I would love to play Richard III.

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

After I finished working on the movie, I went back into the show again playing Riff, so it was an incredible time because I loved playing Riff in the theater and, of course, I loved playing Bernardo in the film. We had such a really beautiful time. We knew we were working on something of quality.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Production has a lot if risks but I think acting is more challenging. You have to make a character look real.