George Jean Nathan Quotes

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

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

I really love theatre, as that is where I started out.

I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.

If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.

My best work happened on the stage.

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

I'm working with theatre-makers who are the top of their game, and it's extraordinary.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.