Patrick Stewart Quotes

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.