Walter Matthau Quotes

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

I was about ten when I first got laughs playing Fagin in 'Oliver' at junior school in Offerton. It was the best feeling in the world, and I didn't want it to end.

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

I love being onstage, I love getting applause, and I love the love that comes across the footlights. It's so much a part of what I do and what I've done most of my life.

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.

I love being on stage, nothing compares to it.

Being on stage at the Soho Theatre is hard to beat.

I miss doing a straight play.

I like to perform in front of an audience.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

I did my first play when I was 7.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

The most exciting thing about joining EastEnders' is not only that I'll be back on the television, but I'll also be working with Maggie. I have admired her for a long time. She is one of my favorite actresses. Filming not just our first scenes but our first episode together will be like first night in the theatre - very exciting indeed.

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

Chris Corso became a friend several years ago, I've always loved his restaurants.

You'd need to polish your skills as you only get one chance. In cinema, retakes are possible but in theatre, there are none.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

There isn't anything hotter than a guy who cooks.

My first school play was 'Perkin and the Pastry Cook' that my primary school put on, and I played a boy, and it was so much fun, and I'd love to play a boy again. I think that would be great.

The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.