Rutina Wesley Quotes

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I loved my role in Devaki' and enjoyed enacting the character.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't want to be overexposed.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

My grandmother took me to a play, and... there was a little girl on stage. And as soon as I saw her on stage, I thought, 'This is my job'... I was probably, like, 7 or 8. I was very young... It was 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'.

I loved working in the theater.

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

My best work happened on the stage.

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.

My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

I think my natural home was always the stage.

I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.

I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.