Hugh Jackman Quotes

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

The stage is near and dear to me.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

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.

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

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