Erin Richards Quotes

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

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

We all know that on Broadway you need to have stars to do a play.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

The stage is near and dear to me.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.

I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

One of the first roles I every played, I was Grandpa Vanderhoff in 'You Can't Take It With You.' Walked with a cane, white stuff in my hair. It must have been horrible. Thank God there's no videotape of it.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

I love just a stage.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.