Christine Baranski Quotes

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

I love, love, love acting, so if you can just go in and play, who could ask for more?

I always did plays, I got the comedic roles in college ... or, uh, the ones that would get naked.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

I have always loved both drama and comedy.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.