Keegan Allen Quotes

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

I'm an actor of the theater.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

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.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!