Joseph Wiseman Quotes

I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can't pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you use theatre techniques in life.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.