Robert Lepage Quotes

I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

I try not to see myself as anything, as that would be embarrassing. But if I had to label myself, I'd probably say I was an artist due to the fact that I enjoy working within the arts on different platforms, of which comedy is just one.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

Acting and singing are integrally locked together.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that's the way to do it. I went along, and I immediately found something I was passionate about and really enjoyed.

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway for three years in 'Hairspray,' and also doing TV and film.

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art.

I have been passionate about dancing and acting as long as I I can remember. It was a natural progression to make it my passion, pursue it, learn more about it, and develop myself as a performer.