Beth Behrs Quotes

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

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

Acting takes so much energy.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.