Samuel West Quotes

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

Mumbai and Gujarat are the two places that can be termed as the capital of theatre.

Broadway was weird.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'

My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

I started out producing theatre in New York.