Sarah Waters Quotes

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

What I really want to be is an actor.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.

I always wanted to become an actress.

I want to act. That'd be so much fun.

I never dreamt of being a pop star or being on stage - makeup was always my true passion.

I'm a theatre doll, and I've always - since I'm out of school - have always been on stage.

As an actor, I just want to perform.

I'd like to be on Broadway for as long as possible.

Trying to look glamorous while singing is not easy.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.