Rene Auberjonois Quotes

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

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 always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

Monologues are fun.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, 'Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.' It was really easy to connect to.

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.