Josh Young Quotes

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.

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.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

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.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.