Hugh Grant Quotes

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I have this mistress: show business.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.

The stage is near and dear to me.

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

I love doing both theater and television.

I used to like doing school plays.

Drama is where I always thought I would go.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

When I was little, all I could think about was just being on some kind of stage, whether it be on a live stage, whether it be on a set stage.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.