David Denman Quotes

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.

In theatre, I loved doing '2nd May 1997' at the Bush. Jack Thorne is a brilliant writer, and it was really exciting and felt new and different for me.

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.

Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

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'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.