Samira Wiley Quotes

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

I have a background in theater - I went to school for theater. I love film - love it - but there's just something about theater that I really miss.

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

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 like to stay in touch with the fans via social media a lot. I really get involved through Twitter and Instagram, if anyone wants to see what I'm doing.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

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.

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

I had to learn a lot on 'Victorious' because I had never done multi-camera before. It's like music: You need to be on it, and there's no room for subtleties.

I was heavily involved in musical theater.

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

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.