Sasha Pivovarova Quotes

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

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 was Boots The Monkey in 'Dora The Explorer Live Dora's Pirate Adventure,' and it was the greatest!

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

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

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

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

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.

I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

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

Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.

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