Sonny Chiba Quotes

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

I like a drama.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.